Re: HSRP

Hi Nathan

In my opinion, this is another one of those cases of knowing that you CAN
configure the VIP on 1 router in certain situations.
In the real world, I have always seen the virtual ip configured on all
devices, and I dont think anyone does any different.

Regards
Roy

2009/11/3 Nathan Richie <nathanr_at_boice.net>

> I know in HSRP that you can configure the virtual IP on 1 of the routers
> and
> the other routers will learn about it. But as I ponder world peace, the
> following questions come to mind:
>
> who
> * Why? Why would you not configure the VIP on every router? OK, I
> know for the lab funky things can be required, but I am thinking of the
> real
> world.
>
>
> * Do the other routers relearn it at some point? I played with
> this
> in the lab and made R1 the router with the VIP and routers 2 through 6
> learned
> the IP address for the group.
>
> o However, when I changed the VIP on router 1, it did not propagate to
> the
> other routers even though router 1 was the active HSRP router for the
> group.
> I rebooted router 2 and after the HSRP initialized, it had the new VIP, but
> routers 3 through 6 still had the old IP address associated with the group.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nathan
>
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