Re: OSPF - Can a router have two DR's?

From: Joe Chang (changjoe@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 02:13:33 GMT-3


Hi Jeongwoo,

 Your diagram is somewhat hard to understand, but from looking at the
adjacency table on R3 nothing seems to be wrong. You have two neighbors in
two different areas, so it is possible to have two DRs.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeongwoo Park" <jpark@wams.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:02 AM
Subject: OSPF - Can a router have two DR's?

> Hi all
> Can a router have two DR's?
> I have a layout as following.
> -----------------------r6-------------------------r3----------------------

--
> ---r5
> area 2                       area1                      area0
>
> area 1 is a transit area where the virtual link are going through.
> r3 has a config "ip ospf priority 0" not to be DR.
> In this layout, r3 seems to have two DR's( r6 and r5) as following.
>
> r3#sh ip ospf nei
> Neighbor ID     Pri   State           Dead Time   Address
Interface
> 170.100.51.5      1   FULL/DR         00:01:38    170.100.1.5
Serial0/0
> 170.100.66.6      1   FULL/DR         00:00:38    170.100.55.6
> Ethernet0/1
>
> And both r6 and r5 get priority 1 each.
>
> Is this normal behavior for r3.
>
> One more thing is that from r5's point of view, r3 is DROTHER, and from
r6's
> point of view r3 is BDR.
>
> Are these normal behavior?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> JP
> .
.


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