From: MADMAN (dave@interprise.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 16:23:51 GMT-3
Larson, Chris wrote:
> If you use preempt, the HSRP router with the lower priority will assume the
> primary gateway role from any other HSRP gateways in the same group when it
> comes online again. Without it, once an HSRP router has assumed the role of
> primary gateway it will stay that way until another outage cause it to flip
> again.
substitute lower with Higher priority!!!!
Dave
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: lg01 [SMTP:lg01@myway.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:37 AM
>>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>>Subject: HSRP question
>>
>>Hello Group,
>>
>>If I have 2 ethernet interfaces routers configured with HSRP, is it
>>necessary to have the "preempt" option on the 2nd (lower priority router)?
>>
>>Say RouterA
>>
>>int eth0
>> ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
>> standby 1 ip 192.168.1.10
>> standby 1 priority 200
>> standby 1 authentication cisco
>> standby 1 preempt
>>
>>
>>And on RouterB
>>
>>int eth0
>> ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
>> standby 1 ip 192.168.1.10
>> standby 1 priority 150
>> standby 1 authentication cisco
>> standby 1 preempt ----- Is this needed?
>>
>>The logic I am thinking is that since RouterB has a lower HSRP priority,
>>if RouterA is offline, it will become the primary router. But if RouterA
>>is online, it will always be on Standby anyway, so I'm not sure whether
>>there is any need for this.
>>
>>Any input / advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>H.
>>
>>
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