Re: Data Description Exchange

Acee Lindem <acee@REDBACK.COM> Fri, 30 August 2002 14:54 UTC

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Keng wrote:

>>--- Acee Lindem <acee@REDBACK.COM> wrote:
>>
>>>Also, during exStart->exChange->Full transition,
>>>is it possible to form an
>>>
>>>>adjacency without sending LSA Header info in its
>>>>
>>>DD packets.
>>>
>>>
>> No. You'd always have at least your router LSA.
>>
>
> Acee,
>
> with regards to your comment above,
> if a master router has more DD packets to send than the slave and the
> slave has already sent its entire db, doesn't the slave just ack with DD
> packets that have no lsa headers (I=0, M=0)?


Hi Keng,

You are correct. I was speaking in terms of the database exchange process
and the first DD packet sent in the exchange.



>
> thanks,
> Keng.
>
>


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Acee