From: Tarun Pahuja (pahujat@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 18:51:24 ART
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HTH,
Tarun
On 11/5/07, M_A_Jones@dell.com <M_A_Jones@dell.com> wrote:
>
> Im thinking in theory, that is what they'd be looking for (Setting
> others to 0 and setting a high priority for DR). Most people arent aware
> how important the speed of the routers boot up phase is during election.
>
>
> So I doubt you'd see something like that. I to, did a lot of digging for
> that very instance.
>
>
> Michael Jones
> Network Engineer
> Global Network Operations
> Dell Inc.
> 512.723.3268
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Eric Phillips
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Any way to force OSPF DR other than "priority 0"?
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have done quite a bit of Googling and DOC-CD reading, and have not
> found anyone offering any clever ways to force the election of a certain
> router as the DR besides setting the priority to 0 on all other routers.
>
> For example, if I had a question that asked me to ensure Router1 was
> always the DR on a certain segment without touching the configuration of
> Router2 and Router3 I can set the priority very high on Router1, but if
> Router1 boots a few seconds later than Router2, Router2 will be the DR
> even if it has it's default priority of 1. The only way I can think to
> completely guarantee Router1 is always the DR is to make the priority 0
> on all other routers.
>
> Am I missing something obvious, or am I over thinking this too much? I
> have not seen this asked in any practice labs, just theorizing what
> could happen.
>
> -Eric
>
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