DES-3326S Layer 3 Fast Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

attached to the network, including the Designated Router itself. The advertisement’s Link State ID field lists the IP interface address of the Designated Router.

The distance form the network to all attached routers is zero, for all TOS. This is why the TOS and metric fields need not be specified in the network links advertisement.

The format of the Network Links Advertisement is shown below:

Network Link Advertisements

Link-State Age

Options2

Link-State ID

Advertising Router

Link-State Sequence Number

Link-State ChecksumLength

Network Mask

Attached Router

Figure 5-30. Network Link Advertisement

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Network Mask

The IP address mask for

 

 

the network.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Attached Router

The Router Ids of each of

 

 

the routers

attached to

 

 

the network.

Only those

 

 

routers that

are fully

 

 

 

 

 

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