On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tom Swenson wrote:
My TC has been running so long I no longer remember how to change things on the ospf interface. It won't let me do a:
set ip defaultroute gateway
Try this before setting the static default route: set ospf global asbr disable IIRC, if ASBR is disabled OSPF will not use the default route heard via OSPF.
command, so I think I have to do it in the ospf. I have found the Designated Router Address as being set to my existing router. I want to change it to a different one. I have been searching my hard drive and also the commworks site for answers but can't seem to find any. Anyone out there know how to do this and save me a huge amount of time.
The DR is not the same thing as your default gateway. The DR helps to distribute routing info among multiple OSPF neighbors but it is not necessarily the default gateway. To change the DR you need to adjust the OSPF priority on the router interfaces and force election of a new DR by clearing OSPF on the router that is currently the DR. To change the default route, you need to adjust the OSPF metrics on the same interfaces.