From: James Ventre (messageboard@ventrefamily.com)
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 10:24:11 GMT-3
In the real world you aught to be careful relying on the gratuitous
reply. Hosts are not obligated to accept the gratuitous ARP
reply/broadcast and update their table.
James
Tom Lijnse wrote:
>As far as I know 'use-bia' has similar convergence to normal HSRP. The
>only extra step is that when the Standby becomes Active it has to send
>out the gratuitous arp-replies and the hosts need to update their
>arp-caches, but as far as I can see that should only add milliseconds to
>the convergence time. I haven't tested very extensively, but when I did
>use it, it never seemed slower than normal HSRP.
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