From: Venkataramanaiah.R (vramanaiah@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 20 2005 - 08:54:46 GMT-3
On 9/20/05, Varthis Vassilantonakis <vvas@altec.gr> wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
> It has been asked many times before in the forum but I want to add
> something more to it with this post.
> So, the question usually was what is the difference between VRRP and HSRP.
>
> Now, I've seen all the answers saying that it is basically the same, but
> one is cisco proprietary and the other is industry standard.
>
> But, let's see if there are differences configuration wise. From CCO
> I've seen the following for VRRP:
>
> "Because the virtual router uses the IP address of the physical Ethernet
> interface of Router A, Router A assumes the role of the master virtual
> router and is also known as the IP address owner. As the master virtual
> router, Router A controls the IP address of the virtual router and is
> responsible for forwarding packets sent to this IP address. Clients 1
> through 3 are configured with the default gateway IP address of
10.0.0.1<http://10.0.0.1>
> ."
>
> In HSRP as I've seen you can not configure the stanby ip to be the
> actual ip configured on one of the routers.
Can't you use the standby 1 use-bia command to achieve this in HSRP?
On the other hand in VRRP another ip can be used (like HSRP), but also
> we can use the actual ip configured on the interface making the router
> the "master virtual router".
>
> So, is this the only difference if we watch it in the configuration
> perspective?
>
> And more specifically if we are asked to configure RouterA' to be
> preferred, should VRRP master virtual router be implied or anyone would
> be ok?
>
> TIA
>
> Varthis
>
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