|-----Original Message----- |From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Brian |Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 10:43 AM |To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Continuing OSPF problems | | |On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeff Mcadams wrote: | |> Thus spake Mike Wronski |> >Actually an OSPF route must be readvertised/flooded every |MaxAge minutes or |> >it is removed from the active table. MaxAge is usually 30 |minutes but may be |> >vendor specific. See section 14 of the RFC.. |> |> Ah...indeed...that's true...I was thinking flooding more in the terms of |> RIP, where the whole database of the router was flooded out, rather than |> an individual LS entry. | |Well, it is very flood like, because when you first boot an OSPF router, |all the LSA's come in to that router. So all the LSA's (intial anyways), |will be re-flooded in 30 minutes. | |So, what I am hearing, is that each LSA has its own MaxAge? Thats pretty |cool, but on 30 minute intervals from the time you established adjacency, |you will probably get "floods" since that would be the bulk of the |database....... | |Brian YOU are correct sir.. -M - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.