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Figure 28 LSR packet format

Major fields of the LSR packets are as follows:

LS type: Type of the LSA to be requested. Type 1 for example indicates the Router LSA.

Link state ID: Determined by LSA type.

Advertising router: ID of the router that sent the LSA.

LSU packet

LSU (Link State Update) packets are used to send the requested LSAs to the peer. Each packet carries a

collection of LSAs.

Figure 29 LSU packet format

Version

4

Router ID

Area ID

Checksum

AuType

Packet length

Authentication

Authentication

Number of LSAs

LSA

0

7

15

31

LSA

LSAck packet

Link State Acknowledgment (LSAck) packets are used to acknowledge received LSU packets. An LSAack

packet carries the headers of LSAs to be acknowledged.