Re: ASBR Selection

There is no election. All ASBRs advertise routes that are redistributed. OSPF routers then calculate the best paths to those ASBRs or FA (if present) and chose which routes to use. External metrics are compared first though.

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On May 28, 2012, at 1:51, Vincent Tay <vtay.75_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If there are two ASBRs redistributing routes, will there be any selection?
> From what i have try, the router that i clear the ospf process will end up
> advertising the type 5 routes. I am quite confuse with it.
> 
>                         EIGRP
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> R3(ASBR)------------------------------R2(ASBR)                  !
> Redistributing EIGRP into OSPF
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> Thanks.
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