From: Tim Fletcher (tim@fletchmail.net)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 17:48:43 GMT-3
Yeah, ... that's what I meant. :-)
Never mind.
At 03:39 PM 5/8/2003 -0500, MADMAN wrote:
> Perfect except I hope you meant "though router B has a HIGHER priority"!!
>
> nit pic Dave
>
>Tim Fletcher wrote:
>>Lets look at the following sceanrio;
>>Both routers are up, router B is active, router A is in standby. If
>>router B goes down, router A will become active. So far, so good. But
>>what happens when router B comes back up? Without the preempt keyword,
>>router A will remain active and router B will go into standby, even
>>though router B has a lower priority. With the preempt keyword, router B
>>will preempt router A and become active, forcing A to go into standby.
>>-Tim Fletcher #11406
>>At 11:37 AM 5/8/2003 -0400, lg01 wrote:
>>
>>>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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>>
>
>
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>Sr. Network Engineer
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