Figure 6- 103. Link-State Request Packet
Each advertisement requested is specified by its Link-State Type, Link-State ID, and Advertising Router.This uniquely identifies the advertisement, but not its
instance. Link-State Request packets are understood to be requests for the most recent instance.
Link-State Update Packet
Link-State Update packets are OSPF packet type 4.These packets implement the flooding of link-state advertisements. Each Link-State Update packet carries a
collection of link-state advertisements one hop further from its origin. Several link-state advertisements may be included in a single packet.
Link-State Update packets are multicast on those physical networks that support multicast/broadcast. In order to make the flooding procedure reliable, flooded
advertisements are acknowledged in Link-State Acknowledgment packets. If retransmission of certain advertisements is necessary, the retransmitted
advertisements are always carried by unicast Link-State Update packets.
The format of the Link-State Update packet is shown below:
Figure 6- 104. Link-State Update Packet
The body of the Link-State Update packet consists of a list of link-state advertisements. Each advertisement begins with a common 20-byte header, the link-state
advertisement header. Otherwise, the format of each of the five types of link-state advertisements is different.
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Octets
OSPF Link-State Request Packet
Router ID
Area ID
Checksum
Authentication Type
Authentication
Authentication
Link-State ID
Advertising Router
Link-State Type
Version No.
3
Packet Length
0
1
2
3
4
Octets
OSPF Link-State Update Packet
Router ID
Area ID
Checksum
Authentication Type
Authentication
Authentication
Link-State Advertisements
Number of Advertisements
Version No.
4
Packet Length
0
1
2
3
4