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Re: Update to OSPF Hello procedure[draft-kou-ospf-immediately-replying-hello-00.txt]

Paul Jakma <paul@CLUBI.IE> Sat, 31 December 2005 14:35 UTC

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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Nitin Kakkar wrote:

> Manav,

> That's the entire point routers with higher priority may not get chance to
> participate in DR election. Now DR election depends on the order in which
> routers come up and send hello. There is no grace time for other routers to
> come up and announce themselves.

You'll just get another DR/BDR election in that case.

> Nitin

regards,
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Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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