3. VRRP
It is Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
It is standard based
It is also called Gateway Redundancy Protocol
Which is used when primary gateway goes down.
5. VRRP Communication
VRRP communicates using hello Protocol
It sends advertisements to multicast address using 224.0.0.18
It uses IP Protocol 112
It communicates using Virtual Mac address 0000.5e00.01xx where xx is the
group number
Hello Messages
Hello Messages
Master
Backup
6. VRRP Election
VRRP Advertisements are sent at 1 second interval
One is elected as Master Router whereas all other routers are in the backup
router
Master is elected by router with the highest priority
VRRP Preemption is enabled by default
No Tracking Mechanism in VRRP
Hello Messages
Hello Messages
Master
Backup