Flood a newer link advertisement
03Reliable flooding distributes newer link-state information through the area.
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Acknowledgment removes it from the retransmission list.
Acknowledgment removes it from the retransmission list.
Protocol participantThreat or exceptionProtocol controlSimplified drawings · precise section references
RFC 2178RFC 2328 Appendix G.1
MaxAge LSA handling is refined: immediate acknowledgment and discard requires no database copy and no neighbor in Exchange or Loading.
Read the updated RFC section ↗Sequence numbers, checksums, and age help decide which LSA instance is newer.
- Sequence numbers, checksums, and age help decide which LSA instance is newer.
- Acknowledgments and retransmission lists make flooding reliable.
The drawing is a simplified worked example. Follow the linked RFC and its updates for implementation requirements.
Read the RFC section ↗Diagrams simplify the RFC. Read the linked sections for complete requirements.
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