A DR Needs to Be Elected from a Set of Candidate

question 237

Multiple Choice

A DR needs to be elected from a set of candidate PIM-SM routers for multicast data forwarding on the source side or the receiver side. Which of the following statements regarding DR election rules is true?

• A) The PIM-SM router with the lowest DR priority is elected as the DR.
• B) The PIM-SM router with the smallest IP address is elected as the DR.
• C) The PIM-SM router with the longest interface mask is elected as the DR.
• D) DR priorities of the PIM-SM routers are compared first. If their DR priorities are the same, their interface IP addresses are then compared.

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