RE: HSRP

Thanks Roy & Mark. I am going to chalk this "feature" up to software engineers on crack when writing code :)

-----Original Message-----
From: mark jackson [mailto:markcciejackson_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:41 PM
To: Roy Waterman
Cc: Nathan Richie; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: HSRP

Nope, no different here.

Mark Jackson, CCIE#4736

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On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Roy Waterman <roy.waterman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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