R3303-HP HSR6800 Routers High Availability Configuration Guide

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Specifying the VRRP control VLAN
With VLAN termination, after a port receiving a VLAN packet, it removes its VLAN tags and then
forwards it at Layer 3 or processes it in other ways. VLAN termination includes the following categories:
• Unambiguous termination—Terminates VLAN packets from a specified VLAN only. In other words,
after receiving a packet from the specific VLAN, a port configured with unambiguous VLAN
termination removes its VLAN tag.
• Ambiguous termination—Terminates VLAN packets from multiple VLANs whose VLAN IDs are in
the specified range. In other words, after receiving a packet from a VLAN in the specified range, a
port configured with ambiguous VLAN termination removes its VLAN tag.
By default, an ambiguous termination-enabled Layer 3 subinterface or VLAN interface drops broadcast
and multicast packets they receive, instead of transmitting them.
You can enable a Layer 3 Ethernet subinterface, or a VLAN interface configured with ambiguous
termination to transmit broadcast/multicast packets within all VLANs whose VLAN packets are
configured to be terminated by the subinterface or VLAN interface.
Figure 43 VRRP control VLAN
As shown in Figure 43, configure ambiguous VLAN termination for VLAN 10 and VLAN 20 on the Layer
3 Ethernet subinterfaces on routers. To enable the master periodically multicasting VRRP advertisements
to the backups, be sure to enable the subinterfaces configured with VLAN termination to transmit
broadcast/multicast packets. Then, the master sends VRRP advertisements within all VLANs whose VLAN
packets are configured to be terminated by the subinterfaces. If the Layer 3 Ethernet subinterfaces are
configured to terminate packets from many VLANs, there will be many VRRP advertisements to be
transmitted through the subinterfaces, and the performance of the router will be seriously affected.
To solve this problem, you can configure a VRRP control VLAN to allow the master to send VRRP
advertisements only within the control VLAN when the subinterfaces configured with VLAN termination
are disabled from transmitting broadcast or multicast packets.
VRRP control VLAN includes the following categories:
• Specifying a single VLAN tag:
For subinterfaces configured with ambiguous Dot1q termination, this type of control VLAN should
be specified.
• Specifying both inner and outer VLAN tags: