OSPF LSA (broadcast ?)

Hi All,

   I was going through OSPF Flood reduction feature in the below link and
found the definition for LSA under the glossary.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_1t/12_1t2/feature/guide/dt_ospff.html

The definition is stated as below

"link-state advertisement (LSA)*Broadcast* packet used by link-state
protocols that contains information about neighbors and path costs. LSAs are
used by the receiving routers to maintain their routing tables."

My question is ,is the LSA is a broadcast packet ..My understanding was it
would be multicast or unicast packet,but seems it is wrong.Kindly clarify me
the same.

Thanks for the great help

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

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Received on Tue Sep 29 2009 - 16:41:21 ART