3Com corebuilder 3500 Implementation Manual page 390

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In addition, OSPF also considers the following routes to be external
routes. They are advertised using external link state advertisements:
The default route
Static routes
Routes derived from other routing protocols, such as RIP
Directly connected networks that are not running OSPF
All external routes are assigned a cost metric. External route cost is
calculated based on one of these cost metric types:
Type 1 — Router adds the internal cost metric to the external route
metric. For example, if an ABR is advertising Type 1 external route
metrics, the cost of the route from any router within the AS is equal to
the cost associated with reaching the advertising ABR, plus the cost of
the external route.
Type 2 — Routers do not add the internal route metric to the external
route metric. Therefore, the router that advertises the smallest
external metric is chosen, regardless of the internal distance to the AS
boundary router. For example, if an ABR is advertising Type 2 external
route metrics, the cost of the route from any router within the AS is
equal to the cost of the external route alone. The cost of reaching the
advertising ABR is not considered in determining the cost of the
external route. The internal cost is only used as a tie-breaker when
several equal-cost Type 2 routes exist.
When both Type 1 and Type 2 metrics are present in an AS, Type 1
external metrics take precedence.
Each external link state advertisement includes this information:
LSID (Link State ID) — An IP network address:
For Type 3 summary link advertisements, this is the IP network
number.
For Type 4 summary link advertisements, this is the ASBR's
router ID.
Router ID — ID of the router that originated the LSA.
LS Seq (Link State Sequence) — The sequence number of the
advertisement. Used to detect old or duplicate link state
advertisements.
LS age — The time, in seconds, since the LSA was generated.