Poison reverse is another way of avoiding routing loops. Once you learn of a route through an interface, advertise it as unreachable back through that same interface.
Once a router discovers it has lost contact with a neighboring router, it will immediately forward a routing update with the inoperable route metric set to infinity. Additionally, the router will broadcast the route with an infinite metric.
LSA are used to reliably flood link-state advertisement packets. LSA is sent to all routers in the OSPF area to signal a change in topology. This causes all routers to recalculate all of their routes using the Djikstra (SPF) algorithm.
Poison reverse is another way of avoiding routing loops. Once you learn of a route through an interface, advertise it as unreachable back through that same interface.
Once a router discovers it has lost contact with a neighboring router, it will immediately forward a routing update with the inoperable route metric set to infinity. Additionally, the router will broadcast the route with an infinite metric.
LSA are used to reliably flood link-state advertisement packets. LSA is sent to all routers in the OSPF area to signal a change in topology. This causes all routers to recalculate all of their routes using the Djikstra (SPF) algorithm.
Poison reverse – fail – advertise back
LSA – flood
Hold down – don’t update yet