Re: [OSPF] link-LSA for ospfv3 multi area adjacency

Peter Psenak <ppsenak@cisco.com> Wed, 11 June 2008 08:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OSPF] link-LSA for ospfv3 multi area adjacency
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Nischal,

Nischal Sheth wrote:
> Section 4 of RFC 5185 says that a link-LSA SHOULD NOT be advertised for a
> ospfv3 multi-area adjacency.  Instead, it suggests that the neighbor's link
> local address can be gleaned from hello packets.
> 
> It appears to me that this won't work for multi-area adjacencies in non-IPv6
> AFs.  Any thoughts on loosening this recommendation and generating link-LSAs
> for multi-area adjacencies in general or at least for non-IPv6 AFs?

5185 is based on the current OSPFv3 spec that supports only a single AF.
If the multi AF support in OSPFv3 requires changes to the 5158, it 
should be done as a part of the OSPFv3 multi-AF effort.

thanks,
Peter



> 
> Any other ideas to solve the above problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nischal
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