{"draft":"draft-pillay-esnault-ospf-flooding-07","doc_id":"RFC4136","title":"OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies","authors":["P. Pillay-Esnault"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"5","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"Open Shortest Path First IGP","abstract":"This document describes an extension to the OSPF protocol to\r\nreduce periodic flooding of Link State Advertisements (LSAs) in\r\nstable topologies.\r\n\r\nCurrent OSPF behavior requires that all LSAs, except DoNotAge LSAs, to\r\nbe refreshed every 30 minutes.  This document proposes to generalize\r\nthe use of DoNotAge LSAs in order to reduce protocol traffic in stable\r\ntopologies.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.","pub_date":"June 2005","keywords":["open shortest path first","link state advertisement","lsa","donotage"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4136","errata_url":null}