Which disjointness attribute excludes LFAs that share a common fiber (SRLG) with the protected path?
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Correct answer: shared risk link group-disjoint.
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Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG)-disjointness ensures that the backup path does not share any common physical resources, such as fiber optic cables, with the protected path. This is crucial for network resilience because a failure affecting the shared resource would take down both the primary and backup paths, defeating the purpose of protection. Linecard-disjointness ensures paths use different line cards but could still share a fiber. Interface-disjointness ensures different interfaces are used, but they might be on the same line card or share a fiber. Lowest-repair-path-metric is a calculation, not a disjointness attribute.
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