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Optimized Flooding
Find common “two hop” neighbors
Group neighbors based on their neighbor sets
Calculate minimum set of overlapping relays
Pick one neighbor from each group of neighbors with the same “two hop” neighbors
Signal overlapping relays to flood LSAs
Remaining neighbors do not reflood learned information (they backup the active overlapping relay)
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