That's all to do with the hello from x being received first who at that point in time had the highest router-id at the time of the multi-access election and declared himself as the DR (default priority is 1 for all peers)
OSPF DR/BDR elections are not pre-emptive debug ip ospf adjacency will show you what happens when If you had the above scenario then reset the current DR's process (lower router-id) to enable the highest router-id OSPF router take the DR role -- BR Tony > On 20 Feb 2014, at 23:28, vishal bhugra <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Experts > > While going through the DR and BDR election process. I gone through a line > wherein during the process of election the router will segregate the list > of routers who have mentioned themselves as BDR and those who have > mentioned themselves as DR. > > After segregation out of the list of BDR, the elected BDR will be with the > highest priority and if not then highest Router ID. > > Now my question is .. Why would a router will opt himself for BDR and not > for DR. Or we can say how a router will come to conclusion that it has to > go for be a BDR not the DR. > > -- > Thanks®ards > > Vishal > > Best way to predict the future ..... is to create it > > > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Free CCIE R&S, Collaboration, Data Center, Wireless & Security Videos :: iPexpert on YouTube: www.youtube.com/ipexpertinc
