Re: OSPF LSA (broadcast ?)

Usain TheThunderbolt,

  Oh I see ,Thanks for the clarification.

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Usain TheThunderbolt <
fordownloadsccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anantha ,
>
> Dont forget that OSPF defaults to multicast mode of operation .
> Besides a broadcast(one packet to all OSPF routers) in a kind of
> multicast . Feel free to use multicast or broadcast in that context ,
> dont let such wording distract you from OSPF flood reduction :)
>
> HTH
>
> On 9/29/09, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
> <anantha.natarajan_at_gravitant.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was going through OSPF Flood reduction feature in the below link and
> > found the definition for LSA under the glossary.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_1t/12_1t2/feature/guide/dt_ospff.html
> >
> > The definition is stated as below
> >
> > "link-state advertisement (LSA) *Broadcast* packet used by link-state
> > protocols that contains information about neighbors and path costs. LSAs
> are
> > used by the receiving routers to maintain their routing tables."
> >
> > My question is ,is the LSA is a broadcast packet ..My understanding was
> it
> > would be multicast or unicast packet,but seems it is wrong.Kindly clarify
> me
> > the same.
> >
> > Thanks for the great help
> >
> > Regards
> > Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
> >
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