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Large-Scale IP Network Solutions (CCIE Professional Development)
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Large-Scale IP Network Solutions (CCIE Professional Development)

by Khalid Raza - CCIE, Mark Turner
November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 3m
English
Cisco Press
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Categories of LSAs

In the discussion of link-state protocols, you read that every router advertises its active OSPF links to all its neighbors; you also learned about the five categories of links that the router advertises in OSPF. Recall that the five link states are:

Type Description
1 Router link state
2 Network link state
3 Summary link state (type 3)
4 Summary link state (type 4)
5 External link state

All link states share a common LSA header because every link state must advertise some common information. Figure 9-7 shows the common 20-byte LSA header that is shared by all types of LSAs.

Figure 9-7. Common 20-Byte LSA Header

The common LSA header contains the following information:

  • LS age This is the time in seconds since ...

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