Re: ospf misunderstanding

From: Ed Lui (edwlui@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 13:22:10 GMT-3


Chris,

[quote]
"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)"
[/quote]

I think what the workbook author is trying to say is, neighbor
statement is needed on the DR only. And is specific to this case(NMBA)
only.

Edward

On 2/1/06, Chris Lewis <chrlewiscsco@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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