Kelly, I'm going to take a stab at this because I JUST started working with OSPF in my lab at home. However, in the Cisco doc.s they were saying it's good practice to set your priority level to zero. Actually here is the paragraph.
"OSPF routers all have the same priority value by default: 1. You can assign a priority from 0 to 255 on any given OSPF interface. A priority of 0 prevents the router from winning any election on that interface. A priority of 255 ensures at least a tie. The Router ID field is used to break ties; if two routers have the same priority, the router with the highest ID will be selected. You can manipulate the router ID by configuring an address on a loopback interface, although that is not the preferred way to control the DR/BDR election process. The priority value should be used instead because each interface can have its own unique priority value. You can easily configure a router to win an election on one interface, and lose an election on another." This is from the Cisco Semester 5 Networking academy. I hope it helps. Also the info was saying if you wanted to make one router always be the DR to set the loopback address a very high ip address. This ensures that as long as the router is up the loopback with the highest address will always be the DR. Just a request for all who read this. Please let me know if this is correct. As I stated I'm just starting on OSPF and would love feed back to see if I am understanding this correctly. Steve Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=64468&t=64468 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
