@techreport{dong-ospf-flush-mitigation-00, number = {draft-dong-ospf-flush-mitigation-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dong-ospf-flush-mitigation/00/}, author = {Jie Dong and Xudong Zhang and Zhenqiang Li}, title = {{LSA Flushing Problem Mitigation in OSPF Networks}}, pagetotal = 6, year = 2016, month = oct, day = 31, abstract = {In OSPF protocol, LSAs with the LS age at MaxAge are not used in routing table calculation and MUST be flushed in the network. In some cases, the flushing of OSPF MaxAge LSAs may cause flooding storm of OSPF packets and severely impact network stability and the services provided by the network. This document specifies a backward compatible mechanism to mitigate the impact of MaxAge LSA flushing in OSPF networks.}, }