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

Paul Jakma <paul@CLUBI.IE> Wed, 04 January 2006 19:24 UTC

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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Paul Jakma wrote:

>> 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.

Oops, no.

The implementation I'm most familiar with will just force another 
election, due to another 'quick sync' hack -> ignoring the wait-time 
and sending Hello immediately on start.

Real OSPF of course shouldn't cause additional elections, as someone 
corrected me on in private.

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