Is there a way to force an election? I have the priorities set correctly as
viewed in sho ip ospf nieghbor, however, the highest priority router is not
the DR.
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> Elias,
>
> I am going to display my awesome lack of OSPF knowledge in public, so
> bear with me:)
>
> The ip ospf cost and ip ospf priority are interface specific commands:
> unless something drastic has happened at Cisco, you can not enter them
> under the ospf process configuration mode as implied here.
>
> Priority only affects DR elections: it has no impact on route
> selection.
>
> Cost is a trickier one, but generally speaking, it does affect route
> selection. If you have two routes to the same destination, you can set
> the cost of one higher than the other, and the lower cost one will be
> preferred (assuming it is up and operational, of course).
>
> OSPF calculates the cost of each interface using the formula of
> interface bandwidth/100Mbps; the resulting number is the cost of the
> interface by default.
>
>
> You could also indirectly set the interface cost by setting the
> bandwidth of the interface higher or lower using the the bandwdith
> command: OSPF will then calculate based on that.
>
> I am not going to get into load balancing between interfaces to the same
> destination because, frankly, it's beyond the scope of my brain. I hope
> the previous info helps even a little bit.
>
> Flames to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Charles
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Posted At: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:59 PM
> Posted To: cisco
> Conversation: OSPF !!!
> 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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