Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Flooding of LSP

Flooding of LSP
       After a node has prepared LSP, it must be scattered to all other nodes, not only to its neighbors. This process is called flooding, and based on   the following:
  1. The creating node sends a copy of the LSP out of each interface.
  1. A node that receives a LSP compares it with the copy it may already  have.
  1. If newly arrived LSP is older, than the one it had, then the new one is discarded.
  2. If newly arrived LSP is newer , then:-
      a) Discards the old LSP, and keeps the new one.
      b) Sends a copy of it out of each interface except the one  from    which the packet has arrived. This guarantees that flooding stops somewhere in the domain.

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