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

[Manav Bhatia <[e-mail]>]

So whats the harm in this? 

If you wanted a particular router to become the DR then you would have given it a higher priority.
The fact that you havent done that implies that you dont really care which router becomes the DR.

Manav
--- Nitin Kakkar <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Suppose there are n routers on a Link and all of them come up almost
> simultaneously.
> 
> Seems like the routers which were fractionally faster to send hello will be
> picked for DR/BDR election !!!
> 
>  
> 
> May be you can think of  immediately replying to hello packet "Only when DR
> is already elected on the link".
> 
>  
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Nitin
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailing List [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> Kouzengjie
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 7:51 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Update to OSPF Hello
> procedure[draft-kou-ospf-immediately-replying-hello-00.txt]
> 
>  
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> The draft can be found here:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kou-ospf-immediately-replying-hell
> o-00.txt
> 
>  
> 
>  This memo documents an extension of the OSPF protocol to reach 
>    "ExStart" state more quickly. Currently, the OSPF behavior requires 
>    the Hello Packet to be sent between the neighbors every 
>    HelloInterval. This document proposes to generalize the use of 
>    Immediately Replying Hello which could reduce the time required to 
>    reach the OSPF "ExStart" state and  expedite the routing table 
>    convergence.   
> 
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