OSPF DR/BDR election help, please!

Empathy

So I'm trying to force a DR/BDR election between 3 routers, and even after setting the priority on the router I want to force to be the DR to 255, I can't make that router "win" the election.

here's the output from "show ip ospf neighbor detail" from the router that keeps winning the election:

Crarion2620#sh ip ospf neighbor detail
Neighbor 10.1.1.3, interface address 10.1.1.3
In the area 0 via interface FastEthernet0/0
Neighbor priority is 255, State is FULL, 12 state changes
DR is 10.1.1.1 BDR is 10.1.1.2
Options is 0x42
Dead timer due in 00:00:37
Neighbor is up for 00:24:12
Index 2/2, retransmission queue length 0, number of retransmission 0
First 0x0(0)/0x0(0) Next 0x0(0)/0x0(0)
Last retransmission scan length is 0, maximum is 0
Last retransmission scan time is 0 msec, maximum is 0 msec
Neighbor 10.1.1.2, interface address 10.1.1.2
In the area 0 via interface FastEthernet0/0
Neighbor priority is 1, State is FULL, 6 state changes
DR is 10.1.1.1 BDR is 10.1.1.2
Options is 0x2
Dead timer due in 00:00:32
Neighbor is up for 00:33:53
Index 1/1, retransmission queue length 0, number of retransmission 1
First 0x0(0)/0x0(0) Next 0x0(0)/0x0(0)
Last retransmission scan length is 1, maximum is 1
Last retransmission scan time is 0 msec, maximum is 0 msec

Any ideas of what I'm missing? Thanks!

mikej412

Set the other routers priority to 0

The election isn't preemptive, so the first router to boot up usually will win, unless you tell the other routers not to participate in the election process.

Or you could always just manually boot that router first and let it win.... then boot the other routers. That way you'd have a backup in case the first router dies.