To address unwanted UDP port 68 traffic being broadcast, the best feature to implement on an ArubaOS-CX 6300M switch would be DHCPv4-snooping. This feature helps mitigate issues related to DHCP traffic, specifically UDP port 68, by allowing the switch to monitor DHCP messages exchanged between clients and servers. This monitoring helps in preventing malicious or accidental DHCP server replies from misconfigured or rogue devices, thereby improving network performance and reducing unwanted broadcast traffic.
A valid VSX system-MAC address must be a unicast MAC address. Unicast MAC addresses have the least significant bit of the first octet set to 0, indicating that the address is not a multicast address. Additionally, a MAC address should not have all bits set to 1, as this signifies a broadcast address. Option B, AB:00:04:00:FF:00, fits these criteria, making it a valid MAC address for use as a VSX system-MAC address.
The 'blackhole' option in the 'ip route' command specifies that packets matching the destination route are silently discarded without sending an ICMP error notification to the sender. This means the switch will discard packets to the destined host without any additional notification.
The configuration in the exhibit defines a Quality of Service (QoS) queue profile (Q1) and a schedule profile (S1). However, for these profiles to take effect and influence traffic handling, they need to be explicitly applied to specific interfaces. This is a common requirement in network devices, where the configuration profiles must be linked to interfaces to become operational.