From: David Luu (wicked01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 03:45:52 GMT-3
default priority is 1, and yes priority 0 does not let it participate in
the DR selection
At 06:37 AM 5/19/2002 +0100, Kevin Mitnick wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was reading page 558 of Jeff Doyle's Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 and came
>across this paragraph.
>
>"The neighbor command configures Rembrandt with the IP addresses of the
>interfaces of its three neighbors. The default priority is zero; by not
>changing the default at Rembrandt, none of its neighbors is eligible to
>become the DR or BDR?
>
>Doesn't having priority zero make a router ineligible to be DR or BDR ?
>
>When I read Solie ( CCIE Practical Studies page 762), it wrote
>
>"The hub router of the multipoint network, or the router that has a PVC
>to each site, should be statically configured as the DR. To accomplish
>this, set the priority of the spoke or remote routers to 0. A priority
>of 0 tells OSPF that this interface or neighbor will not participate in
>the DR/BDR election process"
>
>Am I missing something ? Could someone help clarify the above two
>statements ? I read the archives and someone said that it might have
>something to do with the nieghbor statements. However, both books used
>the neighbor statements to identify their neigbors.
>
>Kevin
>
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