Subject: Re: DR Priority

From: Bill Fenner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:15:55 -0700

>I understood that if there is no DR Priority Option in the incoming
>Hello message, router will assign default priority of 1 to the sender
>of the Hello message.

No; in this case priority-based election is disabled.

>Why is there a provision of "default priority" then ? 

The default is for routers that support DR priority but haven't been
configured with a specific priority value; they send the DR priority
option with the default priority.

  Bill