Routing

LSA

English

Overview

Advertisement information conveying link state, exchanged between routers in OSPF.

Details

Short for Link State Advertisement. Advertisement information exchanged between routers in OSPF to convey link state, from which the link-state database is built. There are several types, used for different purposes -- Type 1 (Router LSA) conveys a router's own information, while Type 2 (Network LSA), originated by the DR, conveys information about a multi-access network.

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