HSRP Preemption: Reload vs Restart

From: Hobbs (deadheadblues@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2008 - 14:20:00 ART


Hello,

The HSRP preemption configuration options are as follows:

standby [group-number] preempt [delay {minimum delay | reload delay | sync
delay}]

I always thought that the "minimum" keyword was used for preemption when the
router was already loaded and it's priority was just increased (through
tracking or other means). However the documentation explains it like this:

*minimum *seconds
...causes the local router to postpone taking over the active role for a
minimum number of seconds since that router was last restarted.

*reload *seconds
Specifies the preemption delay, in seconds, after a reload only.

What is the difference between reload and restarted in these explanations?

thanks

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