OSPF routers exchange link status information instead of directly exchanging routes.

OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a link-state routing protocol. Instead of directly exchanging routes, OSPF routers share link-state advertisements (LSAs) that describe the state of their links (e.g., connected networks and costs). Each router uses this information to build a complete topology map of the network and calculate the shortest path to each destination using the SPF (Shortest Path First) algorithm.

The statement accurately describes how OSPF operates, making it TRUE .