April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
20h
English
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RFC 2370: Opaque LSA Option
Because you are reading this book, you obviously recognize how OSPF has increasingly been deployed in a variety of different networks. This increase has required OSPF to be extended into a variety of areas, yet more flexibility was needed. Enter the Opaque LSA. These new types of LSAs are designed to provide a method of carrying information that can be used as follows:
Encapsulating application-specific information in a specific Opaque type, either type 9, 10, or 11
Sending and receiving application-specific information
If required, informing the application of the change in validity of previously received information when topological changes are detected
The interesting thing is that the actual use of these Opaque LSAs ...