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<reference anchor="I-D.ietf-lsr-ospf-ls-link-infinity" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-ls-link-infinity-03">
   <front>
      <title>Advertising Unreachable Links in OSPF</title>
      <author initials="L." surname="Gong" fullname="Liyan Gong">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="W." surname="Cheng" fullname="Weiqiang Cheng">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="C." surname="Lin" fullname="Changwang Lin">
         <organization>New H3C Technologies</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="A." surname="Lindem" fullname="Acee Lindem">
         <organization>Arrcus, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="R." surname="Chen" fullname="Ran Chen">
         <organization>ZTE Corporation</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="June" day="6" year="2025" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   In certain scenarios, it is necessary to advertise unreachable links
   in OSPF, which should be explicitly excluded from the related SPF
   calculation.  This document specifies using LSLinkInfinity(0xffff) to
   advertise an OSPF link as unreachable.

   Stub Router Advertisement (RFC 6987) defines MaxLinkMetric (0xffff)
   to indicate a router-LSA link should not be used for transit traffic.
   This document updates RFC 6987 and RFC 8770.  When an OSPFv2 router
   supports the Unreachable Link support capability defined in this
   document, the OSPFv2 stub router MaxLinkMetric(0xffff) MUST be
   updated to MaxReachableLinkMetric(0xfffe).

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-ls-link-infinity-03" />
   
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