Re: DB Synchronization

Rikki Nguyen <rikki@REDBACK.COM> Fri, 29 August 2003 17:56 UTC

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From: Rikki Nguyen <rikki@REDBACK.COM>
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Parag Deshpande wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a doubt ->
>
> 2 routers A and B have an ospf adjacency.
>
> Router A sends an ASExt lsa for network N1/m1 with LSID = N1.
> Then Router A goes down & comes up again & reoriginates
> ASExt lsa for network N1/m2 with LSID = N1 and then
> gets adjacent with Router B.
>
> **where m1 != m2 & they are multiple of 8. (/8, /16..)
> also assuming that all other parameters are same.
>
> However in this case the DB Exchange will fail to
> synchronize these LSAs bcoz they appear
> to be similar- LSID, SeqNum, Checksums being equal**
> and thus will have to wait for the LSA to get refreshed.

The checksum is computed over the entire LSA body,
this includes the netmask.  Since the netmasks are
different, it would be difficult for the checksum
to be the same.

>
> I was wondering whether this can be resolved faster.
>
> Thanks
> Parag
>