COMPUTER NETWORKING

Detailed explanation-1: -Flooding: Each router sends the information to every other router on the internetwork except its neighbors. This process is known as Flooding. Every router that receives the packet sends the copies to all its neighbors. Finally, each and every router receives a copy of the same information.

Detailed explanation-2: -LSAs are distributed throughout a defined area by the process of reliable flooding. When a router receives a new LSA in a Link State Update packet, it installs the LSA in its database and then forwards the packet on all its interfaces except the one on which the Update packet was received.

Detailed explanation-3: -The link state routing algorithm consists of two phases. In the first phase (Reliable Flooding), the information about neighbors is gathered and transmitted. In the second phase (route calculation), every router uses the shortest path computation algorithm to calculate the most optimal route to every router.

Detailed explanation-4: -Flooding is a very simple routing algorithm that sends all the packets arriving via each outgoing link. Flooding is used in computer networking routing algorithms where each incoming packet is transmitted through every outgoing link, except for the one on which it arrived.