Re: ospf misunderstanding

From: Chris Lewis (chrlewiscsco@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 13:04:33 GMT-3


From what you have written, the workbook looks wrong. ip ospf priorty has to
do with DR election, non-broadcast networks needs neighbor statements to
send out unicast hellos. Different things. If the network type is changed to
broadcast, this is clearly not the case.

Chris

On 2/1/06, Popgeorgiev Nikolay <nikolay.popgeorgiev@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have a small question about ospf, network types and frame-relay.
>
> Here is a sample network:
>
> two spokes, one hub. The requirement is to enable ospf between them and to
> use non-broadcast network type on the interfaces.
>
> This leads to a DR/BDR election, and according to me the DR should be on
> the hub and there shouldn't be BDR.
> Also I have to put "ip ospf priority 0" on my spoke routers' interfaces
> right?
> Cause the network doesn't allow multicasts I have to specify neighbors -
> two from the DR and one on each spoke.
> BUT in a solution from a work book I saw this sentence :
>
> "The neighbor statements are required only on interfaces that are NOT
> configured with ip ospf priority 0 (which means spokes don't need neighbor
> command)"
>
> SO how does the spokes find where to make their adjacency ?
>
>
> thanks,
> Nick
>
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