English to French Tech/Engineering Patents Open Shortest Path First, network, node, information, routes, LSA, LSBD

generating a single Router-link state advertisement (LSA) (191) to advertise over an interface (180) that connects at least one of the set of OSPF spoke routers (117) to the network element (112), wherein the Router-LSA (191) includes information that describes a connection to the set of OSPF spoke routers and one or more aggregate routes; and advertising, during a database exchange process with the one of the set of OSPF spoke 5 routers (117), only the single LSA (191) to the one of the set of OSPF spoke routers (117).