DR and BDR Election

The OSPF process needs to elect a Designated Router and a Backup

Designated Router for sending updates to all other OSPF routers.

Generally, this only occurs when the OSPF process begins (or the OSPF
process is restarted), however some caveats may apply.

1. To elect a DR and BDR, the routers will use the priority configured by the
ip ospf priority [#] command
a. Highest priority is preferred
b. Range from 0 255; default of 1
c. Value of 0 is never elected, value of 255 at least forces a tie

2. If a tie in priority value, or no priority was configured, routers then use

HIGHEST router ID to break tie in this order. The router ID comes from
a. Router ID that was explicitly configured
i. (config-router) router-id A.B.C.D
b. If no router ID was configured, use loopback address as configured
on router
c. If neither of these are configured, the router will use the highest IP
address on an active interface as its router ID.