Users Guide

Figure 156. Basic VRRP Conguration
VRRP Benets
With VRRP congured on a network, end-station connectivity to the network is not subject to a single point-of-failure. End-station
connections to the network are redundant and are not dependent on internal gateway protocol (IGP) protocols to converge or update
routing tables.
VRRP Implementation
Within a single VRRP group, up to 12 virtual IP addresses are supported.
Virtual IP addresses can belong to the primary or secondary IP address’ subnet congured on the interface. You can ping all the virtual IP
addresses congured on the Master VRRP router from anywhere in the local subnet.
Up to 255 VRRP groups are supported on the switch. The total number of VRRP groups per system should be less than 512.
The following recommendations shown may vary depending on various factors like address resolution protocol (ARP) broadcasts, IP
broadcasts, or spanning tree protocol (STP) before changing the advertisement interval. When the number of packets processed by
RP2/CP/FP processor increases or decreases based on the dynamics of the network, the advertisement intervals may increase or
decrease accordingly.
CAUTION
: Increasing the advertisement interval increases the VRRP Master dead interval, resulting in an increased failover time
for Master/Backup election. Take caution when increasing the advertisement interval, as the increased dead interval may cause
packets to be dropped during that switch-over time.
1116 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)