Re: HSRP

LOL.

Mark Jackson, CCIE#4736

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On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Nathan Richie <nathanr_at_boice.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Please excuse spelling errors
>
> 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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