Folks,

Thanks for all that have replied.  One thing to mention that Charles was the
only one to mention that " ip ospf cost and ip ospf priority  are interface
specific commands "  Nothing drastic changes at Cisco Charles.  It was just Me
and I (brain was hurting ) putting the config together on top of my head...

But thanks for mentioning that and my problem was resolved by using the
bandwidth command and playing with the some of the metrics.

Thanks all
Elias
 



"Atif Awan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Priority does not affect route selection; it is only for the DR election
process in OSPF.

Cost does affect route selection. OSPF determines the best route to a
destination based upon the metric called cost. By default cost is calculated
using the formula :

Cost = 10exp8/ bandwidth of the interface ( i think so :) )

You need to set the correct bandwidth for serial links using the bandwidth
command. Make sure you understand that the bandwidth command is just an
informational command that tells the different routing protocols about the
actual bandwidth of an interface. This command has nothing to do with the
data transmission rate.

Regards
Atif Awan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:22 PM
Subject: OSPF !!!


>Hello everyone!
>
>I have a bit of confusion with how to route selection occurs in OSPF by
>icluding the following commands Please shade some light on this
>
>Ok here comes
>
>does cost and priority affects route selection ??
>
>1. router ospf 3
> network 158.13.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0
> default-information originate
> default-metric 1
> distance 85
> ip ospf cost 10
> ip ospf priority 4
>
>
>2 router ospf 3
>  network 158.13.0.0 0.0.255.255 area 0
> default-information originate
> default-metric 1
> distance 85
> ip ospf cost 20
> ip ospf priority 5
>
>Thanks,
>Elias
>
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