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JN0-649 · Question #178

In OSPF, how does a router ensure that LSAs advertised to a neighboring router are received?

The correct answer is C. LSAs are acknowledged by the neighboring router. Link-state acknowledgment (LSAck)messages provide reliability to the link-state exchange process, by explicitly acknowledging receipt of a Link State Update message. The LSA acknowledgment, explicitly acknowledged, that it have received a LSA, by mirroring it back.

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Question

In OSPF, how does a router ensure that LSAs advertised to a neighboring router are received?

Options

  • ALSA flooding guarantees that all routers will receive them successfully.
  • BLSAs are sent over a TCP connection.
  • CLSAs are acknowledged by the neighboring router.
  • DLSAs are advertised with an acknowledgement bit.

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  • A
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  • B
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  • C
    79% (34)
  • D
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Explanation

Link-state acknowledgment (LSAck)messages provide reliability to the link-state exchange process, by explicitly acknowledging receipt of a Link State Update message. The LSA acknowledgment, explicitly acknowledged, that it have received a LSA, by mirroring it back.

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#LSA acknowledgment#OSPF reliability#LSA flooding#neighbor adjacency

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