Re: LSAs with Reserved flooding scope

"Kwiatkowski, Jacek" <jacek.kwiatkowski@INTEL.COM> Fri, 09 August 2002 14:55 UTC

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From: "Kwiatkowski, Jacek" <jacek.kwiatkowski@INTEL.COM>
Subject: Re: LSAs with Reserved flooding scope
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Subhash,

You are right. However, the same issue can happen in OSPFv2 if the LS type
of a received LSA is unknown.
In both versions of OSPF, receiving of such an LSA in DD packets indicates
that one of OSPF routers is broken.

Jacek

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:38:17 -0700, Subhash <ospftyro@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was going over rfc 2740 section 3.5.1(3) - if the flooding scope of a
>received LSA is set to reserved, discard it.  Is such a check required
>when a database description packet is received?
>
>The reason why I am asking is because if a router doesnt make such a
>check upon receiving the DD, & sends a request for such an LSA, its
>request list will never become empty, as per rfc 2328.  Am I right?
>
>Thanks for your feedback.
>-Subhash
>
>
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Re: LSAs with Reserved flooding scope Kwiatkowski, Jacek