Watchguard Network Security Practice Test

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If a connection fails to fail over, which could be a reason for the failure?

SDWAN ping policy wasn't setup
Link monitor failed
Link monitor was set to gradually fall back
Link Monitor was set to ping the default gateway, but the outage was upstream

The correct answer is: Link Monitor was set to ping the default gateway, but the outage was upstream

When considering the reasons a connection might fail to fail over, the scenario where the link monitor was set to ping the default gateway yet the outage occurred upstream is particularly significant. A link monitor is designed to test the health of a connection by sending pings to a specified endpoint, such as a default gateway. If the link monitor is only checking the default gateway's availability, it assumes the internet connection is functioning properly if that gateway responds. However, if there is a failure upstream—meaning there's a problem further along the path to the internet, such as with an ISP or a central routing device—the link monitor would not be aware of this issue if it only checks the default gateway. Thus, even though the gateway might be reachable and return pings successfully, the broader connection could still be down, preventing a failover from being triggered when it should have been. This illustrates the importance of comprehensive link monitoring that can account for potential issues both locally and upstream in the network path.