type-5 las extarnal-tag field

tajay <tajay@NETD.COM> Wed, 13 July 2005 14:10 UTC

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Subject: type-5 las extarnal-tag field
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hi guys,
I am not clear about extarnal-route-tag field in the type-5 lsa.  Can 
anyone  just give me some information about that. Also what should be 
the default value of the tag field? where it is useful ..? 

thanks
ajay