An enterprise network deployment hosts multiple business-critical server workloads on a bare-metal Type 1 hypervisor. The hypervisor is connected via a dual-homed physical 10GbE uplink to an upstream Layer 3 switch. Inside the hypervisor, a internal virtual switch (vSwitch) connects multiple virtual machines (VMs) assigned to VLAN 10. If a virtual machine on VLAN 10 emits an Ethernet broadcast frame (destination MAC FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) during an ARP resolution request, how do these virtual and physical infrastructure components process and scope the broadcast traffic?
- The virtual switch forwards the broadcast frame to all other VM virtual interfaces assigned to VLAN 10 on that host and out the physical uplink to the Layer 3 switch, where the switch processes the frame at Layer 2 across VLAN 10 ports but does not forward it across routed Layer 3 boundaries.Cevap
- BThe physical Layer 3 switch receives the broadcast frame on its VLAN 10 trunk port and automatically routes it across all active IP subnets and routed interfaces to ensure enterprise-wide resolution.
- CThe Type 1 hypervisor passes the frame to a host operating system kernel driver, which converts the Ethernet broadcast into host OS system calls before writing it directly to the physical NIC ring buffer.
- DThe virtual switch parses the LLDP TLV header inside the ARP payload to determine the physical destination MAC address of the Layer 3 switch and converts the broadcast into a unicast frame.
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The virtual switch forwards the broadcast frame to all other virtual machine interfaces in VLAN 10 and out the physical uplink to the Layer 3 switch, which confines the broadcast within VLAN 10 and does not forward it across Layer 3 routed boundaries.
A Layer 2 virtual switch integrated into a Type 1 bare-metal hypervisor operates as a standard bridge. When a VM issues a broadcast frame, the vSwitch floods it to all vNICs in the same VLAN and out the physical network interface card (pNIC) uplink. Upon reaching the physical Layer 3 switch, the frame is flooded only across ports belonging to VLAN 10. The Layer 3 boundaries on the switch terminate the broadcast, preventing it from reaching other VLANs or subnets.
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Layer 2 Broadcast Domain Scoping in Virtual and Physical Network Components