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How the prefixes configured on point-to-point link are handled in OSPFv3



Hi

What does the following sentence (section 3.4.3.7) in the RFC 2740 mean?

 

Router RTX examines its list of interfaces to the area. If the

      interface is in state Down, its prefixes are not included. If the

      interface has been reported in RTX's router-LSA as a Type 2 link

      description (link to transit network), its prefixes are not

      included (they will be included in the intra-area-prefix-LSA for

      the link instead). If the interface type is Point-to-MultiPoint,

      or the interface is in state Loopback, or the interface connects

      to a point-to-point link which has not been assigned a prefix,

      then the site-local and global scope IPv6 addresses associated

      with the interface (if any) are copied into the intra-area-

      prefix-LSA, setting the LA-bit in the PrefixOptions field, and

      setting the PrefixLength to 128 and the Metric to 0.  Otherwise,

      the list of site-local and global prefixes configured in RTX for

      the link are copied into the intra-area-prefix-LSA by specifying

      the PrefixLength, PrefixOptions, and Address Prefix fields. The

      Metric field for each of these prefixes is set to the interface's

      output cost.

 

Considering the following example

 

RTA<serial 1>-------------------<serial1>RTB

 

Does it mean that RTA will advertise the prefix configured on serial 1 with LA bit set, iff there is no prefix configured on the serial1 of RTB?

 

Thanx and regards

Prasanna