Controlling Designated Router Election

At designated router election, the router priorities are evaluated first, and the router with the highest priority is elected designated router.

By default, routers have a priority of 128. A priority of 0 marks the router as ineligible to become the designated router. To configure a router so it is always the designated router, set its priority to 255.

To change the priority of a Services Router to control designated router election:

1. Navigate to the top of the configuration hierarchy in either the J-Web or the CLI configuration editor.
2. Perform the configuration tasks described in Table 86.

Table 86: Controlling Designated Router Election