Sunday 26 April 2009

OSPF Packet Type

Five types of OSPF packet:

- Hello, used for maintaining neighbour relationships
- Database Descriptor, sending a list of router-ids, current sequence numbers, maintaining current version of link state database
- Link state requests (LSR), request for any missing LSAs
- Link state update, reply to a link state request
- Link state acknowledgement (LSAck), receipt of link state information

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