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why does OSPF elect a designated router on multiaccess segments

Diagram Of Five Routers On An Ospf Multiaccess Ethernet Segment Showing Dr And Bdr With Full Adjacency Lines To All Drothers, And 2-Way Dashed Lines Between Drothers, With Multicast Addresses 224.0.0.5 And 224.0.0.6 Labeled
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Challenges in Multiaccess OSPF Networks

OSPF operates differently on multiaccess network segments than it does on point-to-point links. When multiple OSPF routers share a single broadcast or non-broadcast segment — such as an Ethernet LAN or a Frame Relay network — adjacency management, LSA flooding, and Designated Router (DR) election introduce challenges that do not exist on simple point-to-point connections....

Muhammad Khattak 11 min read
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