Re: OSPF LSA (broadcast ?)

Hi Anantha ,

Dont forget that OSPF defaults to multicast mode of operation .
Besides a broadcast(one packet to all OSPF routers) in a kind of
multicast . Feel free to use multicast or broadcast in that context ,
dont let such wording distract you from OSPF flood reduction :)

HTH

On 9/29/09, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
<anantha.natarajan_at_gravitant.com> wrote:
> 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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