When will an OSPF-enabled router transition from the Down state to the Init state?

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When will an OSPF-enabled router transition from the Down state to the Init state?

  • when an OSPF-enabled interface becomes active
  • as soon as the router starts
  • when the router receives a hello packet from a neighbor router
  • as soon as the DR/BDR election process is complete

Explanation: When OSPFv2 is enabled, the enabled Gigabit Ethernet 0/0 interface transitions from the Down state to the Init state. R1 starts sending Hello packets out all OSPF-enabled interfaces to discover OSPF neighbors to develop adjacencies with.

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