07-25-2003 09:53 AM - edited 03-02-2019 09:08 AM
I was wondering why there were no Type 6 LSAs in OSPF. The Types range from 1-7 skipping 6. I know this is not a crtical question, I just want to know for curiosity's sake.
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07-25-2003 10:23 AM
Acutally there are type 6 LSA's. They are defined in RFC 1584. LS type = 6 group-membership-LSA
They are used in MOSPF for Multicast. See the RFC at
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1584.html
Regards,
Don Ewald
07-25-2003 10:23 AM
Acutally there are type 6 LSA's. They are defined in RFC 1584. LS type = 6 group-membership-LSA
They are used in MOSPF for Multicast. See the RFC at
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1584.html
Regards,
Don Ewald
07-25-2003 10:23 AM
There are type 6 LSAs in OSFP--in fact, there's everything up to 12 or 13, but I'd have to go look to know what the last one is. I know these:
1 -- router (including stub links attached to this router, and connected neighbors, other than those on broadcast links)
2 -- network (actually a node representing a network)
3 -- summary lsa (not an ip address summary, necessarily)
4 -- border router (originated by an ABR, to show where a type 5 within an area is originated to routers outside the area)
5 -- external
6 -- multicast route (no vendors support this at the moment, that I know of, though old Bay/Proteon stuff did, and thus Nortel might)
7 -- nssa external, converted to type 5 at an ABR
Above here are opaques, and one experimental one, but Cisco really doesn't support any of them, except for some of the opaque stuff.
Hope that helps....
Russ.W
07-25-2003 10:27 AM
It sure does. Thanks to both of you. I never thought to look to MOSPF to find the LSA.
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