All these packets, except Hellos, are sent only between adjacent
adja routers.
LSA types
There are 5 common LSA types:
LSA header:
What we have to remember is that LS Type, Link State ID and Advertising Router together
uniquely identify LSA, what will be shown later in this post.
Having information described in this post you will be able to calculate OSPF intra-area routes.
Each router calculates the SPT using itself as the root. In the first stage only links between
routers and transit networks are considered. Then, in the second stage, stub networks are
added to the tree as leaves.