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CCIE #20728

OSPF Type 5 LSA

OSPF uses the Type5 external link LSAs to advertise external routes originated from an ASBR. They are flooded through the whole OSPF domain (at least into the parts where they are accepted) and point packets for those external addresses to the ASBR. There is a field called Forward Address within that Type5 LSA, which is usually set to 0.0.0.0 which means that the packets should be sent directly to the ASBR.

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August 18, 2009 Posted by pashtuk | OSPF | , , | No Comments Yet