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The Fragment Builds the Whole
The Fragment Builds the Whole
In link-state routing, no router is blind. Every node floods its local connections to the entire network, allowing every single participant to construct an identical, complete map of the entire graph. From this shared reality, each router independently calculates the shortest path rooted at itself. The fragment builds the whole.
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