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Configuring additional VRRP and VRRPE parameters
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Configuring additional VRRP and VRRPE parameters
You can modify the following VRRP and VRRPE parameters on each individual virtual router. These
parameters apply to both protocols:
• Authentication type (if the interfaces on which you configure the virtual router use
authentication)
• Backup priority
• Suppression of RIP advertisements on Backup routes for the backed up interface
• Hello interval
• Dead interval
• Backup Hello messages and message timer (Backup advertisement)
• Track por t
• Track priority
• Backup preempt mode
• Master Router Abdication and Reinstatement
Refer to “VRRP and VRRPE parameters” on page 462 for a summary of the parameters and their
defaults.
Authentication type
If the interfaces on which you configure the virtual router use authentication, the VRRP or VRRPE
packets on those interfaces also must use the same authentication. Brocade’s implementation of
VRRP and VRRPE supports the following authentication types:
• No authentication – The interfaces do not use authentication. This is the default for VRRP and
VRRPE.
• Simple – The interfaces use a simple text-string as a password in packets sent on the
interface. If the interfaces use simple password authentication, the virtual router configured
on the interfaces must use the same authentication type and the same password.
To configure the interface on Router1 for simple-password authentication using the password
“ourpword”, enter the following commands.
Configuring router 1
Router1(config)# interface ethernet 1/6
Router1(config-if-e10000-1/6)# ip vrrp auth-type simple-text-auth ourpword
Configuring router 2
Router2(config)# interface ethernet 1/5
Router2(config-if-e10000-1/5)# ip vrrp auth-type simple-text-auth ourpword
Syntax: ip vrrp auth-type no-auth | simple-text-auth <auth-data>
The auth-type no-auth parameter indicates that the virtual router and the interface it is configured
on do not use authentication.