Nuts and Bolts

• LAN Flooding

  • OSPF uses multicast send, unicast ack from DR

    • Reduces flood traffic by 50% (uninteresting)
    • Requires per-neighbor state (for retransmissions)
    • Interesting (but complex) acknowledgement suppression
    • Flood traffic grows as O(N)

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