how to set priority of routers in ospf

[David Rohleder]

Martin Kraus píše v Út 27. 10. 2009 v 19:21 +0100:
> Hello. I'm running ospf from a router against two other routers on the same
> ethernet segment. Those two routers a both capable of routing given prefixes,
> but I prefer one of them to do the actual routing and use the other one as a
> backup router in case of emergencies. How can I set such a preference? I
> thought of using ospf_metric2, but it is supposed to work only when
> ospf_metric1 isn't set, which is (checked using show route all). 
> For some reason the configuration does what I need, but I can't figure out
> why. Could anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> thanks
> mk

I think this is not feasible using OSPF. You could possibly split this
one broadcast network to two nonbroadcast networks and then define
different costs on each of them.

David