This question also puzzled me for a long time, a lot of various IE also can't answer up.
There are no 2 types of LSA, and I have experimented with topologies that can be drawn according to the 1 class LSA .
But one thing is missing: The description of the link is bidirectional. Take point-to-point, two routers will say I connect to you, you connect to me, as follows the first class is point-to.
First Class link point to point link 1.Link -id Neighbor's router-id 2.Link-type Point to Point 3.Link-data this router's interface on this link ip Class II link stub network link 1.Link-id Network Address 2.link-type stub network 3.Link-data Subnet Mask Category III link transmit network link 1.Link-id in the network segment interface 2.Link-type Transmit network 3.Link-data interface of this link Fourth Class link Virtual-link link 1.Link-id Neighbor router-id 2.Link-type virtual-link 3.Link-data interface IP for physical port used by virtual link
However, in the MA network of OSPF, each router and Dr Establish a neighbor, Dr is actually a virtual device, such as Dr is R2, but R2 will also say I connect to the DR,
Then Dr needs to describe himself connected to which routers, two-way establishment, if a router a description, certainly unscientific, then directly produces a 2 class LSA. It contains all the router-id of this network, plus a mask.
What does the 2 type LSA do? There are no 2 types of LSA that cannot build a topology?