Re: HSRP Timers in msec (maybe OT)

From: Erick B. (erickbe@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 02:10:10 GMT-3


Well, how about if ST is converging and paths are
blocked at the time - you may end up with 2 active
HSRP routers for a short time depending on where the
block is, etc.

--- Chris Home <clarson52@comcast.net> wrote:
> What does spanning tree convergence have to do with
> HSRP?
>
> I have set hsrp timers between 300 and 600 msec to
> get a faster failover
> time. What difference does it make if spanning tree
> has not finished
> converging?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erick B." <erickbe@yahoo.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:40 PM
> Subject: HSRP Timers in msec (maybe OT)
>
>
> > Has anyone seen any networks where they lowered
> their
> > HSRP timers down to a hellotime of 300 msec and
> hold
> > of 1 second? this happens to be on redundant 6509
> /
> > MSFCs.
> >
> > Spanning tree isn't tweaked and if theres a STP
> issue
> > it would take Spanning tree longer then 1 sec to
> > converge anyway so I don't really understand why
> > someone would lower their timers so low.
> >
> > Just curious.
> >
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