Tuesday, March 30, 2010

OSPF DR Election


OSPF DR Election:
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DR and BDR election is done via the Hello protocol. Hello packets are exchanged via IP multicast packets on each segment. The router with the highest OSPF priority on a segment will become the DR for that segment. The same process is repeated for the BDR. In case of a tie, the router with the highest RID will win. The default for the interface OSPF priority is one. Remember that the DR and BDR concepts are per multi-access segment. Setting the ospf priority on an interface is done using the following interface command:

ip ospf priority

A priority value of zero indicates an interface which is not to be elected as DR or BDR. The state of the interface with priority zero will be DROTHER.

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