VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) is a computer networking protocol that provides for
automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol (IP) routers to participating hosts. This increases the
availability and reliability of routing paths via automatic default gateway selections on an IP subnetwork.
The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) eliminates the single point of failure inherent in the
static default routed environment. VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns
responsibility for a virtual router (a VPN 3000 Series Concentrator cluster) to one of the VPN
Concentrators on a LAN. The VRRP VPN Concentrator that controls the IP address(es) associated with a
virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets sent to those IP addresses.
HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol) defines an active-standby router configuration using virtual IP and MAC addresses to provide default gateway redundancy. The router with the highest priority value becomes the active router and sends periodic hello messages to the standby router. The show standby command can be used to verify the HSRP state and priority values of routers.
Dynamic routing protocols are used to automatically discover remote networks, maintain up-to-date routing information, and choose the best path to destination networks. There are two main types - interior gateway protocols (IGPs) like RIP, OSPF, and EIGRP that are used within an autonomous system, and exterior protocols like BGP that route between autonomous systems. IGPs use metrics like hop count or bandwidth to determine the best path. OSPF is a link-state protocol that floods link information, while EIGRP uses DUAL algorithm and maintains topology tables for fast convergence.
BGP is an inter-AS routing protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems on the internet. It uses path vector routing rather than distance vector, and carries richer metric information than IGPs. BGP configurations establish neighbor relationships between routers in different ASes to exchange routing updates.
OSPF is an intra-domain routing protocol that uses a link-state algorithm to calculate the shortest path to destinations within an autonomous system. It divides an autonomous system into areas to limit routing updates and allows for route summarization between areas. OSPF uses hello packets to discover neighbors, database description packets to exchange routing information, link-state request packets to request updates, and link-state acknowledgment packets to acknowledge receipt of updates.
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a faulttolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281.
The protocol establishes a framework between network routers in order to achieve default gateway
failover if the primary gateway becomes inaccessible, in close association with a rapid-converging
routing protocol like EIGRP or OSPF. By multicasting packets, HSRP sends its hello messages to the
multicast address 224.0.0.2 (all routers) for version 1, or 224.0.0.102 for version 2, using UDP port 1985,
to other HSRP-enabled routers, defining priority between the routers.
This document provides an overview of different routing protocols. It discusses IP routing, static routing, and dynamic routing. It also covers proactive routing protocols like DSDV which maintain routing tables and periodically update them. Reactive protocols like DSR and AODV establish routes on demand. Hybrid protocols combine proactive and reactive approaches. The document describes the key processes, advantages, and disadvantages of DSDV, DSR, AODV, and zone routing protocol.
EIGRP is a proprietary routing protocol developed by Cisco that uses a composite metric and has fast convergence properties. It functions as a hybrid of distance-vector and link-state routing protocols, sending subnet mask and VLSM information in updates. EIGRP forms neighbor relationships through periodic hello messages and establishes three key tables - Neighbor, Topology, and Routing - to store neighbor, route, and best path information. It utilizes five packet types and reliable transport to efficiently share routing updates.
The document provides an overview of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) which is the routing protocol used to exchange routes between institutions and the KAREN network. BGP allows different autonomous systems (AS) to exchange routing information and is more than just a routing protocol as it contains additional route attributes that are used for policy rules. BGP can operate internally within an AS or externally between ASes to control route propagation based on commercial agreements.
HSRP (Hot Standby Routing Protocol) defines an active-standby router configuration using virtual IP and MAC addresses to provide default gateway redundancy. The router with the highest priority value becomes the active router and sends periodic hello messages to the standby router. The show standby command can be used to verify the HSRP state and priority values of routers.
Dynamic routing protocols are used to automatically discover remote networks, maintain up-to-date routing information, and choose the best path to destination networks. There are two main types - interior gateway protocols (IGPs) like RIP, OSPF, and EIGRP that are used within an autonomous system, and exterior protocols like BGP that route between autonomous systems. IGPs use metrics like hop count or bandwidth to determine the best path. OSPF is a link-state protocol that floods link information, while EIGRP uses DUAL algorithm and maintains topology tables for fast convergence.
BGP is an inter-AS routing protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems on the internet. It uses path vector routing rather than distance vector, and carries richer metric information than IGPs. BGP configurations establish neighbor relationships between routers in different ASes to exchange routing updates.
OSPF is an intra-domain routing protocol that uses a link-state algorithm to calculate the shortest path to destinations within an autonomous system. It divides an autonomous system into areas to limit routing updates and allows for route summarization between areas. OSPF uses hello packets to discover neighbors, database description packets to exchange routing information, link-state request packets to request updates, and link-state acknowledgment packets to acknowledge receipt of updates.
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol for establishing a faulttolerant default gateway, and has been described in detail in RFC 2281.
The protocol establishes a framework between network routers in order to achieve default gateway
failover if the primary gateway becomes inaccessible, in close association with a rapid-converging
routing protocol like EIGRP or OSPF. By multicasting packets, HSRP sends its hello messages to the
multicast address 224.0.0.2 (all routers) for version 1, or 224.0.0.102 for version 2, using UDP port 1985,
to other HSRP-enabled routers, defining priority between the routers.
This document provides an overview of different routing protocols. It discusses IP routing, static routing, and dynamic routing. It also covers proactive routing protocols like DSDV which maintain routing tables and periodically update them. Reactive protocols like DSR and AODV establish routes on demand. Hybrid protocols combine proactive and reactive approaches. The document describes the key processes, advantages, and disadvantages of DSDV, DSR, AODV, and zone routing protocol.
EIGRP is a proprietary routing protocol developed by Cisco that uses a composite metric and has fast convergence properties. It functions as a hybrid of distance-vector and link-state routing protocols, sending subnet mask and VLSM information in updates. EIGRP forms neighbor relationships through periodic hello messages and establishes three key tables - Neighbor, Topology, and Routing - to store neighbor, route, and best path information. It utilizes five packet types and reliable transport to efficiently share routing updates.
The document provides an overview of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) which is the routing protocol used to exchange routes between institutions and the KAREN network. BGP allows different autonomous systems (AS) to exchange routing information and is more than just a routing protocol as it contains additional route attributes that are used for policy rules. BGP can operate internally within an AS or externally between ASes to control route propagation based on commercial agreements.
Hot standby router protocol (hsrp) usingShubhiGupta94
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) provides redundancy for local subnets by allowing routers to share a virtual IP address and MAC address. HSRP configures one router as the active router that forwards traffic, while one or more standby routers take over if the active router fails. Routers in an HSRP group elect an active router using priority values and exchange hello messages to monitor each other. If the active router fails to send hellos, a standby router will become active to maintain network connectivity and avoid traffic interruption.
The document provides an overview of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). It discusses BGP concepts such as autonomous systems, path attributes, and the BGP protocol operation. Key points include that BGP establishes peering sessions to exchange routing information, uses route attributes like AS path, next hop, and communities to determine the best path, and supports techniques like route reflection and confederation to improve scalability in large networks.
VXLAN is a protocol that allows large numbers of virtual LANs to be overlaid on a physical network by encapsulating Ethernet frames within UDP packets and transporting them over an IP network. It addresses the scalability limitations of VLANs in large multi-tenant cloud environments by using a 24-bit segment ID rather than a 12-bit VLAN ID. The document provides an overview of VXLAN, why it is used, key concepts like VTEPs and VNIs, and demonstrations of VXLAN configuration on Cisco and Arista switches.
Day 3 ENHANCED IGRP (EIGRP) AND OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF)anilinvns
This document provides an overview of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocols. It describes the key characteristics of EIGRP including that it is a hybrid routing protocol that uses metrics like bandwidth and delay to determine the best path. It also explains how to configure and verify EIGRP. For OSPF, the document outlines that it is an open standard link-state protocol, defines common OSPF terminology, and describes how to configure OSPF areas and verify the protocol. Loopback interfaces and troubleshooting OSPF are also briefly covered.
This document compares three first-hop redundancy protocols: HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP. HSRP and VRRP provide default gateway redundancy with one active and one standby router, while GLBP additionally supports load balancing across gateways. Key differences include that HSRP is Cisco proprietary, VRRP is an open standard, and GLBP is Cisco proprietary but supports load balancing. All three protocols elect an active router and use multicast for communication.
This document discusses using a loopback interface as the update source for BGP sessions. It explains that when there are multiple paths between BGP neighbors, using a loopback interface ensures the BGP session will not go down if the physical interface fails. It provides the configuration to enable this by specifying the loopback interface in the neighbor update-source command. An example topology is shown connecting routers with EIGRP and configuring BGP between the routers using a loopback interface as the update source.
EIGRP is an advanced distance vector routing protocol that is an evolution of IGRP. It supports features like classless routing, VLSM, route summarization, load balancing and more. For routers to exchange routing information, they must first become neighbors by discovering each other using multicast hello packets and ensuring certain fields match, like the AS number. EIGRP stores routing data in neighbor, topology, and routing tables and uses metrics like bandwidth and delay to calculate the best routes.
BGP (Border Gateway Routing Protocol) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to
exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The
Border Gateway Protocol makes routing decisions based on paths, network policies or rule-sets
configured by a network administrator, and are involved in making core routing decisions.
BGP is a very robust and scalable routing protocol, as evidenced by the fact that BGP is the routing
protocol employed on the Internet.
An Overview of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)Jasim Alam
BGP is the exterior gateway protocol that connects autonomous systems on the internet. It uses distance vector routing and TCP to establish connections between routers in different autonomous systems to exchange routing and reachability information. BGP messages advertise routing prefixes, paths, and policies between autonomous systems. Routers maintain BGP routing tables containing routes and their attributes to determine the best paths for traffic. As the number of autonomous systems and routing entries has increased, challenges around scaling the routing system remain an area of ongoing work.
This document summarizes key concepts about advanced routing protocols including classful and classless protocols, RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF. It describes how classful protocols like RIPv1 summarize networks based on major boundaries and cannot be used with VLSM, while classless protocols carry subnet mask information and allow routing in discontiguous networks. It provides details on configuring and components of RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF such as authentication, metrics, neighbor discovery, and link-state advertisements.
This document provides an overview of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). It describes the history and development of EIGRP, its basic operation and components, including reliable transport protocol, packet types, neighbor discovery via hello packets, and route updates using the diffusing update algorithm. It also covers basic EIGRP configuration such as enabling it with the router eigrp command, advertising networks, and verifying neighbor relationships.
E-VPN and PBB-EVPN are next generation MPLS-based L2VPN technologies that use BGP to distribute Ethernet segment and MAC address reachability information across the MPLS core. They provide all-active multi-homing and load balancing capabilities to maximize bandwidth utilization. PBB-EVPN encapsulates customer frames with backbone MAC addresses to enable split horizon filtering and optimize multicast forwarding.
The document discusses OSPF link-state routing protocol. It describes OSPF's use of link-state databases containing topology information and Dijkstra's algorithm to calculate the shortest path to all destinations. It also explains OSPF's hierarchical area-based network structure and use of link-state advertisements to exchange routing information between neighbors.
A router is a networking device that connects different networks and selects the best path to forward packets between them. It operates at the network layer and uses routing tables to determine the best path. Major router vendors include Cisco, Juniper, and Huawei. Routers have different types of ports including LAN ports to connect to local networks, WAN ports to connect between routers, and administrative ports for management. Routers also run an operating system like Cisco IOS to perform routing functions.
Overview of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP & RSTP)Peter R. Egli
This document provides an overview of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), which are protocols used to create a loop-free topology in Ethernet networks. It describes the goal of preventing broadcast storms by eliminating loops. Key aspects of STP covered include the root bridge, port roles (root port, designated port, non-designated port), BPDUs, path costs, and how STP establishes a loop-free topology for bridged network segments. The document also provides standards information for various STP implementations.
Cisco Internetworking Operating System (ios)Netwax Lab
Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating
System) is software used on most Cisco Systems
routers and current Cisco network switches.
(Earlier switches ran CatOS.) IOS is a package of
routing, switching, internetworking and
telecommunications functions integrated into a
multitasking operating system.
This document contains information about configuring and verifying VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) on Cisco routers. It discusses features of VRRP including virtual router groups, priorities, and authentication. Configuration examples are provided to configure VRRP on interfaces and set priorities. Commands to verify VRRP states and track interfaces are also included.
Difference between Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree
Protocol (RSTP)
1. The main difference between Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W) and Spanning
Tree Protocol (STP IEEE 802.1D) is that Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W)
assumes the three Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) ports states Listening, Blocking, and Disabled are
same (these states do not forward Ethernet frames and they do not learn MAC addresses).
Hence Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W) places them all into a new called
Discarding state. Learning and forwarding ports remain more or less the same.
Hot standby router protocol (hsrp) usingShubhiGupta94
Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) provides redundancy for local subnets by allowing routers to share a virtual IP address and MAC address. HSRP configures one router as the active router that forwards traffic, while one or more standby routers take over if the active router fails. Routers in an HSRP group elect an active router using priority values and exchange hello messages to monitor each other. If the active router fails to send hellos, a standby router will become active to maintain network connectivity and avoid traffic interruption.
The document provides an overview of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). It discusses BGP concepts such as autonomous systems, path attributes, and the BGP protocol operation. Key points include that BGP establishes peering sessions to exchange routing information, uses route attributes like AS path, next hop, and communities to determine the best path, and supports techniques like route reflection and confederation to improve scalability in large networks.
VXLAN is a protocol that allows large numbers of virtual LANs to be overlaid on a physical network by encapsulating Ethernet frames within UDP packets and transporting them over an IP network. It addresses the scalability limitations of VLANs in large multi-tenant cloud environments by using a 24-bit segment ID rather than a 12-bit VLAN ID. The document provides an overview of VXLAN, why it is used, key concepts like VTEPs and VNIs, and demonstrations of VXLAN configuration on Cisco and Arista switches.
Day 3 ENHANCED IGRP (EIGRP) AND OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF)anilinvns
This document provides an overview of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocols. It describes the key characteristics of EIGRP including that it is a hybrid routing protocol that uses metrics like bandwidth and delay to determine the best path. It also explains how to configure and verify EIGRP. For OSPF, the document outlines that it is an open standard link-state protocol, defines common OSPF terminology, and describes how to configure OSPF areas and verify the protocol. Loopback interfaces and troubleshooting OSPF are also briefly covered.
This document compares three first-hop redundancy protocols: HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP. HSRP and VRRP provide default gateway redundancy with one active and one standby router, while GLBP additionally supports load balancing across gateways. Key differences include that HSRP is Cisco proprietary, VRRP is an open standard, and GLBP is Cisco proprietary but supports load balancing. All three protocols elect an active router and use multicast for communication.
This document discusses using a loopback interface as the update source for BGP sessions. It explains that when there are multiple paths between BGP neighbors, using a loopback interface ensures the BGP session will not go down if the physical interface fails. It provides the configuration to enable this by specifying the loopback interface in the neighbor update-source command. An example topology is shown connecting routers with EIGRP and configuring BGP between the routers using a loopback interface as the update source.
EIGRP is an advanced distance vector routing protocol that is an evolution of IGRP. It supports features like classless routing, VLSM, route summarization, load balancing and more. For routers to exchange routing information, they must first become neighbors by discovering each other using multicast hello packets and ensuring certain fields match, like the AS number. EIGRP stores routing data in neighbor, topology, and routing tables and uses metrics like bandwidth and delay to calculate the best routes.
BGP (Border Gateway Routing Protocol) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to
exchange routing and reachability information between autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. The
Border Gateway Protocol makes routing decisions based on paths, network policies or rule-sets
configured by a network administrator, and are involved in making core routing decisions.
BGP is a very robust and scalable routing protocol, as evidenced by the fact that BGP is the routing
protocol employed on the Internet.
An Overview of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)Jasim Alam
BGP is the exterior gateway protocol that connects autonomous systems on the internet. It uses distance vector routing and TCP to establish connections between routers in different autonomous systems to exchange routing and reachability information. BGP messages advertise routing prefixes, paths, and policies between autonomous systems. Routers maintain BGP routing tables containing routes and their attributes to determine the best paths for traffic. As the number of autonomous systems and routing entries has increased, challenges around scaling the routing system remain an area of ongoing work.
This document summarizes key concepts about advanced routing protocols including classful and classless protocols, RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF. It describes how classful protocols like RIPv1 summarize networks based on major boundaries and cannot be used with VLSM, while classless protocols carry subnet mask information and allow routing in discontiguous networks. It provides details on configuring and components of RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF such as authentication, metrics, neighbor discovery, and link-state advertisements.
This document provides an overview of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). It describes the history and development of EIGRP, its basic operation and components, including reliable transport protocol, packet types, neighbor discovery via hello packets, and route updates using the diffusing update algorithm. It also covers basic EIGRP configuration such as enabling it with the router eigrp command, advertising networks, and verifying neighbor relationships.
E-VPN and PBB-EVPN are next generation MPLS-based L2VPN technologies that use BGP to distribute Ethernet segment and MAC address reachability information across the MPLS core. They provide all-active multi-homing and load balancing capabilities to maximize bandwidth utilization. PBB-EVPN encapsulates customer frames with backbone MAC addresses to enable split horizon filtering and optimize multicast forwarding.
The document discusses OSPF link-state routing protocol. It describes OSPF's use of link-state databases containing topology information and Dijkstra's algorithm to calculate the shortest path to all destinations. It also explains OSPF's hierarchical area-based network structure and use of link-state advertisements to exchange routing information between neighbors.
A router is a networking device that connects different networks and selects the best path to forward packets between them. It operates at the network layer and uses routing tables to determine the best path. Major router vendors include Cisco, Juniper, and Huawei. Routers have different types of ports including LAN ports to connect to local networks, WAN ports to connect between routers, and administrative ports for management. Routers also run an operating system like Cisco IOS to perform routing functions.
Overview of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP & RSTP)Peter R. Egli
This document provides an overview of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), which are protocols used to create a loop-free topology in Ethernet networks. It describes the goal of preventing broadcast storms by eliminating loops. Key aspects of STP covered include the root bridge, port roles (root port, designated port, non-designated port), BPDUs, path costs, and how STP establishes a loop-free topology for bridged network segments. The document also provides standards information for various STP implementations.
Cisco Internetworking Operating System (ios)Netwax Lab
Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating
System) is software used on most Cisco Systems
routers and current Cisco network switches.
(Earlier switches ran CatOS.) IOS is a package of
routing, switching, internetworking and
telecommunications functions integrated into a
multitasking operating system.
This document contains information about configuring and verifying VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) on Cisco routers. It discusses features of VRRP including virtual router groups, priorities, and authentication. Configuration examples are provided to configure VRRP on interfaces and set priorities. Commands to verify VRRP states and track interfaces are also included.
Difference between Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree
Protocol (RSTP)
1. The main difference between Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W) and Spanning
Tree Protocol (STP IEEE 802.1D) is that Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W)
assumes the three Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) ports states Listening, Blocking, and Disabled are
same (these states do not forward Ethernet frames and they do not learn MAC addresses).
Hence Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP IEEE 802.1W) places them all into a new called
Discarding state. Learning and forwarding ports remain more or less the same.
This document discusses layer 3 redundancy protocols. It describes routing issues with redundancy and protocols like HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP that provide a redundant default gateway. HSRP defines an active-standby router group that uses a virtual IP address. GLBP provides load balancing across multiple routers and gateway redundancy through automatic failover.
This document outlines a presentation on policy-based validation of SAN (storage area network) configurations. It introduces SANs and compares them to NAS (network-attached storage). It then discusses factors like global access, economics, issues, and challenges in SAN management. It covers relevant data structures, protocols, components like HBAs. The future work section outlines an architecture for policy-based validation including a policy evaluator, request generator, and action handler.
Este documento presenta una sesión sobre novedades en tecnologías LAN en el nuevo CCNA. Se introducen conceptos clave como Spanning Tree Protocol para evitar bucles en la red, Etherchannel para agregar enlaces de red y aumentar la ancho de banda y redundancia, y protocolos de redundancia de primer salto. La sesión fue impartida por Francisco Javier Nóvoa del Grupo Academia Postal en febrero de 2014 en el Centro de Nuevas Tecnologías de Galicia.
Multilayer Campus Architectures and Design PrinciplesCisco Canada
This presentation will discuss the multilayer campus design principles, foundation services, campus design, and best practices as well as security considerations.
A storage area network (SAN) provides centralized storage for multiple servers to access over a network. SANs are useful for large networks that require more storage than a single server can offer, allowing terabytes of data to be accessible by multiple machines. The key components of a SAN include fiber channel switches that connect servers and storage devices, host bus adapters that interface storage with operating systems, and storage devices like fiber channel disks. SANs provide benefits like high storage capacity, reduced costs, increased performance, and improved backup and recovery compared to adding more individual servers. However, SANs also have disadvantages in being expensive to implement and maintain and requiring technical expertise.
Wireless networks come in many different forms, cover various distances, and provide a range of low to
high bandwidth depending on the type installed. Wireless LAN – Wireless LAN enable Laptop users to
access the Network of a company.
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) extends a private network across a public network, such as the
Internet.
A VPN is a network that uses a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide
remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. A VPN ensures
privacy through security procedures and tunneling protocols such as the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
(L2TP). Data is encrypted at the sending end and decrypted at the receiving end.
Here are the key steps to configure RIPv2 on Router1:
1. Enter configuration mode:
Router1> enable
Router1# configure terminal
2. Configure the FastEthernet 0/0 interface:
Router1(config)# interface FastEthernet 0/0
Router1(config-if)# ip address 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.0
Router1(config-if)# no shutdown
3. Configure the Serial 0/0 interface:
Router1(config-if)# interface Serial 0/0
Router1(config-if)# ip address 192.168.23.1 255.255.255.252
Router1(config-if
For some very basic VRF configuration follow the steps:
1. Enters VRF configuration mode and assigns a VRF name.
Router(config)#ip vrf vrf-name
2. Creates a VPN route distinguisher (RD) following one of the 16bit-ASN:32bit-number or 32bitIP:16bit-number explained above
Router(config-vrf)#rd route-distinguisher
3. Creates a list of import and/or export route target communities for the specified VRF.
Router(config-vrf)# route-target {import | export | both} route-distinguisher
4. (Optional step) Associates the specified route map with the VRF.
Router(config-vrf)# import map route-map
Networking Devices are units that mediate data in a computer network and are also called network equipment. Units which are the last receiver or generate data are called hosts or data terminal equipment.
1. The document describes configuring EIGRP routing on a network topology. This includes configuring EIGRP routing processes and interfaces, modifying timers, enabling authentication, adjusting metrics, ensuring all routes are learned, implementing route summarization, and filtering routes.
2. Key tasks are configuring EIGRP routing processes on each router with associated networks, changing timers on EIGRP process 200, enabling MD5 authentication between R4 and R5, adjusting metrics for EIGRP 100, redistributing between EIGRP processes, and summarizing loopback routes on R5 and R7.
3. The solution provides the configuration commands needed to complete each task, such as enabling EIGRP routing on
The document provides instructions for configuring IPv6 on a network topology. It includes tasks to configure IPv6 addresses on routers, configure Frame-Relay over IPv6, assign IPv6 addresses to routers through autoconfiguration, and configure OSPF routing between the routers.
TCP Intercept was developed to protect servers and other resources from Denial-of-Service (DoS)
attacks, specifically TCP SYN attacks.
Just as the name says, TCP Intercept captures incoming TCP requests. Instead of allowing direct access
to the server, TCP Intercept acts as an intermediary, establishing a connection to the server on behalf of
the requesting client.
TCP Intercept will block a client if too many incoming connections are attempted.
IP Address is a unique identification given to Host, network device, server for data communication. IP
Address stand for Internet Protocol address, it is an addressing scheme used to identify a system on a
network. It is a unique address that certain electronic devices currently use to communicate with each
other on a network using internet protocol.
The document provides the configuration steps to complete an IPv6 lab topology including:
1. Configure routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, and RIP on each router as specified in the topology.
2. Enable tunneling between IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces to allow communication across the different address families.
3. Configure specific routing protocols over the tunnels, including EIGRP 111 between R4 and R5 and RIP between R2 and R6.
4. Redistribute routes between protocols to ensure all routers receive routes from each other protocol.
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) resolves physically redundant topologies into loop-free, tree-like
topologies. The biggest issue with STP is that some hardware failures can cause it to fail. This failure
creates forwarding loops (or STP loops). Major network outages are caused by STP loops.
The loop guard STP feature that is intended to improve the stability of the Layer 2 networks. This
document also describes Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) skew detection. BPDU skew detection is a
diagnostic feature that generates syslog messages when BPDUs are not received in time.
The document discusses Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) which provides a way for end hosts to have a redundant default gateway. VRRP elects a master router that is responsible for the virtual router IP address and forwards packets. If the master fails, backup routers can take over forwarding to provide high availability without additional configuration on end hosts. It describes the VRRP packet format and states, and how routers determine the master. It also discusses some implementations and behaviors on ERS5000 series routers.
This document introduces VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) technology. VRRP allows for automatic default gateway failover at the IP routing level. It creates virtual routers to eliminate single points of failure and enable traffic to be transparently forwarded to the best available physical router. VRRP supports load balancing and monitors uplinks through protocols like BFD and NQA. It provides simplified network management, high adaptability, and low network overhead compared to other redundancy protocols.
This document provides information on various IP routing protocols:
- It describes the characteristics and types of IP services, including first hop routing protocols (FHRP) like HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP.
- VRRP and GLBP provide router redundancy and load balancing. VRRP supports up to 255 groups while GLBP supports up to 1024 virtual routers.
- HSRP establishes a default gateway with one active and one standby router. It is Cisco proprietary while VRRP is a multivendor standard.
The document discusses FHRP concepts and HSRP in particular. It explains that FHRPs like HSRP provide redundant default gateways on a LAN by sharing a virtual IP and MAC address across multiple routers. HSRP elects an active router to forward traffic by priority or IP address. The standby router takes over if the active fails. Preemption forces a new election if a higher priority router comes online.
The document discusses first hop redundancy protocols (FHRPs) including Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP). HSRP uses a virtual IP address shared between devices to provide redundancy. It elects an active router while others act as standbys. HSRP version 2 supports more groups and milliseconds timers. Link tracking prioritizes routers based on monitored links. FHRPs ensure network availability if a device or path fails.
The document covers several first hop redundancy protocols including HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP. It provides details on:
- HSRP works by electing an active router that controls a virtual IP and MAC address. If the active router fails, the standby router with the next highest priority takes over.
- VRRP operates similarly to HSRP but uses different terminology where the active router is called the master and backups are called backup routers.
- These protocols allow hosts to be configured with virtual default gateways providing redundancy in case the gateway device fails. Traffic will be directed to the virtual IP and seamlessly fail over to the backup router.
The document contains a 20 question multiple choice exam about networking technologies like HSRP, SNMP, VLANs, STP, QoS, VoIP, and security. The questions cover topics such as router redundancy protocols, switch configuration, trunking protocols, and network hardening techniques.
VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) is a technology that allows multiple instances of a routing table to
co-exist within the same router at the same time. This increases functionality by allowing network paths
to be segmented without using multiple devices. Because traffic is automatically segregated, VRF also
increases network security and can eliminate the need for encryption and authentication. Internet
service providers (ISPs) often take advantage of VRF to create separate virtual private networks (VPNs)
for customers; thus the technology is also referred to as VPN routing and forwarding. Because the
routing instances are independent, the same or overlapping IP addresses can be used without
conflicting with each other.
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This document provides a practice final exam for CCNA 3 v5.0 with 50 multiple choice questions covering topics such as OSPF, EIGRP, STP, wireless networking, and network device configuration and management. It tests knowledge of routing protocols, switching technologies, wireless security and authentication methods, and best practices for upgrading device firmware.
This chapter discusses link aggregation using EtherChannel to combine multiple physical links between switches to increase bandwidth. It describes how EtherChannel works and how to configure it using PAgP or LACP. The chapter also covers first hop redundancy protocols like HSRP that allow multiple routers to share an IP address and MAC address as a virtual router, providing redundancy if the active router fails. It explains how to configure HSRP and use debug commands to troubleshoot issues.
This document provides a configuration example for setting up an MPLS VPN with RIP routing on the customer side. Key aspects of the configuration include:
- Creating a VRF for each VPN and configuring route targets and import/export rules for BGP extended communities to associate routes with the correct VPN
- Configuring PE interfaces with the correct VRF forwarding and IP addresses
- Redistributing routes between routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP) on the PE routers to exchange routes between the CE and P routers
- Configuring IBGP between PE routers to exchange VPNv4 routes using MPLS labels and BGP extended communities
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This document provides information about network redundancy protocols. It discusses several first hop redundancy protocols (FHRPs) including Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). HSRP provides default gateway redundancy. With HSRP, routers share a virtual IP address and virtual MAC address. One router is elected as the active router to forward traffic while the others act as standby routers ready to take over if the active router fails. The document provides detailed configuration steps for implementing HSRP including defining the HSRP group, priority, preemption, and authentication.
The document contains multiple choice questions about network configuration and protocols. Based on the options provided, the correct answers are:
- The missing information for Blank 1 is the command show ip route.
- Addition of hosts to a physical segment and increasing use of bandwidth intensive network applications contribute to congestion on an Ethernet LAN.
- The SwA port has IEEE 802.1Q trunking enabled and the SwB port has ISL trunking enabled.
Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) allows a single router to maintain multiple independent routing tables. It creates virtual routers within a physical router by isolating interfaces, routing tables, and forwarding tables for each VRF. This allows for overlapping IP addresses between VRFs. Configuring VRFs increases network security and segmentation without requiring encryption between instances.
This document provides information on various techniques for load balancing and redundancy, including:
- Load balancing over multiple gateways using policy routing based on client IP address, firewall mangle rules, and default routes.
- VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) for high availability using a virtual IP address, master and backup routers, and fast failover detection.
- Mikrotik PCC (Per Connection Classifier) load balancing which divides traffic into equal streams using a hashing algorithm on packet header fields and marks connections for policy routing out specific gateways.
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1) The document defines several types of VPNs including IP-VPN, network-based IP-VPN, VLL, VPDN, VPLS, and VPRN. 2) MPLS VPN uses MPLS to create private networks over a public IP network. It establishes VPNs by using tunneling protocols and assigning unique routing identifiers to each VPN. 3) MPLS VPN provides isolation and security for each VPN by maintaining separate forwarding tables and using route distinguishers, route targets, and MPLS labels to direct traffic to the correct VPNs.
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Frame Relay is a connection-oriented WAN protocol that uses virtual circuits to allow routers to communicate over a single physical link. Virtual circuits can be permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) or switched virtual circuits (SVCs). Frame Relay encapsulates network layer packets and assigns each virtual circuit a Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI) address. Routers use DLCI addresses to tag packets and direct them over specific virtual circuits.
Similar to VRRP (virtual router redundancy protocol) (20)
The document describes setting up static routes on 7 routers (R1-R7) to allow connectivity between all routers and PCs in a network topology. It involves configuring IP addresses and static routes on each router's interfaces according to the topology diagram, so that each router has a route to every other subnet and can ping all other routers and PCs.
This document outlines the steps to configure HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) on two multi-layer switches (MLS1 and MLS2) including: configuring IP addresses, EIGRP routing, web server and NTP server, setting MLS1 as the active router, tracking the state of interfaces, using HSRP for load balancing between the routers, and enabling NAT on the border router for internal traffic.
The document provides instructions for a lab on route redistribution between OSPF, EIGRP and RIP routing protocols. It involves configuring the routing protocols on various routers as specified in the topology, including redistributing routes between protocols. It also requires summarizing loopback routes between areas and protocols.
Route redistribution involves sharing routes between different routing protocols. Challenges include incompatible metrics between protocols and routing loops or suboptimal paths that can occur from redistributing routes back into their origin domain. Route maps, distribution lists, and adjusting administrative distances can control redistribution and prevent issues like feedback of routes into their source protocol.
The document describes tasks for configuring a zone-based firewall on Router 1:
1. Create an inside and outside zone on Router 1's interfaces; apply an inspect policy between the zones to allow necessary traffic.
2. Configure R2 to ping R3 by name by adding DNS and host entries.
3. Configure R2 to copy a file from R4's HTTP server using the file path and name.
4. Configure R2 as the NTP server and have the other routers synchronize to it after applying necessary firewall policies.
The document provides the configuration steps for a lab exercise on BGP. The steps include:
1. Configuring IBGP and EBGP neighborships between routers as shown in the topology diagram using loopback addresses.
2. Advertising loopback networks in BGP to ensure all routers have the routing information.
3. Configuring route reflectors to reduce the number of neighbor relationships needed.
4. Setting preferences for best paths between routers for certain networks.
This document provides instructions for completing 12 tasks to configure access control lists on routers. The tasks include configuring IP addresses, inter-VLAN routing, EIGRP routing, DNS, Telnet/SSH access, and ACLs to restrict traffic between VLANs and access to websites based on the VLAN. Detailed configuration steps are provided for each router to implement the access controls and routing as outlined in the tasks.
1. The document provides instructions for configuring OSPF routing, filtering LSAs, and summarizing routes between OSPF areas on a network with multiple routers.
2. Tasks include configuring OSPF on each router, filtering routes between areas, redistributing EIGRP routes into OSPF, and using prefix lists and route summarization.
3. The solution shows the OSPF and redistribution configurations needed on each router to implement the requested tasks and filters.
The document describes the tasks and solution for a lab on VLANs and trunking. The tasks are to: 1) Configure IP addresses as shown in the topology, 2) Create DHCP servers for VLANs 10 and 20, 3) Configure SW1 as the VTP server and the others as clients with the domain "netwaxlab.com", 4) Ensure PCs get IP addresses via DHCP, and 5) Allow communication between PCs 9 and 10 which have different IPs on the same VLAN. The solution describes the configurations needed on the switches to accomplish these tasks.
The document provides instructions for configuring an ASA firewall to:
1. Configure security levels and interfaces for DMZ and DMZ1 subnets.
2. Enable ping access between the DMZ and DMZ1 interfaces.
3. Restrict telnet access to the ASA to only the R2 host.
4. Enable SSH access to the ASA from the ISP subnet only.
5. Apply PAT for the Inside, DMZ and DMZ1 interfaces.
6. Allow the ISP to telnet to the R2 host using port 2487.
The document describes tasks to configure NAT on routers R1 and R2. This includes dynamically NATing internal networks and loopbacks to external IP ranges, PAT for some internal networks, and static NAT for R7's loopbacks. EIGRP is configured internally with redistribution. Access-lists are used to define the NAT source addresses and pools are used to map them to external IP ranges. Connectivity to external sites is tested with ping.
This document provides instructions for configuring cut-through proxy on an ASA firewall. It includes steps to configure interfaces, ACLs, AAA authentication with an ISE server, a virtual Telnet IP, and verification tests. The goal is to allow a client to Telnet to a virtual IP on the ASA that will authenticate with ISE and cut through to permit access to a real host IP if authentication succeeds.
The document describes the steps to configure dynamic routing, site-to-site VPN, and network access between devices in a lab topology. The tasks include: 1) Configuring IP addresses and dynamic routing protocols on routers and firewalls, 2) Establishing connectivity between all devices, 3) Implementing NAT and VPN services on the firewalls to allow communication between specified subnets, and 4) Opening a non-standard port for remote access between two routers via one of the firewalls.
1. The document describes configuring IP addresses, DNS, a site-to-site GRE VPN between routers R5 and R6, and a DMVPN network between routers R1, R2, and R3.
2. For the GRE VPN, ISAKMP and IPsec are configured on R5 and R6 using a preshared key of "netwaxlab" to secure the GRE tunnel.
3. For the DMVPN, R1 is configured as a hub router and R2 and R3 as spoke routers. ISAKMP and IPsec are configured using a preshared key of "netwaxlab" to secure the GRE tunnels between the routers.
The document describes configuring VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) on routers R1 and R2. It involves:
1. Configuring R1 as the master for VRRP group 1 using virtual IP 10.0.0.254 and authentication.
2. Configuring R2 as the master for load-balanced VRRP group 2 using virtual IP 10.0.0.193 and a different authentication string.
3. Enabling tracking on both routers so that the priority of the backup router decreases if the route to the opposite network fails, allowing it to take over as master.
1. The document describes tasks for configuring a role-based CLI, including configuring IP addresses, routing protocols, VPN tunnels, and access privileges for different devices.
2. It provides configuration steps for R2 and R3 to enable PAT for inside networks and configure a site-to-site VPN between them with IPsec.
3. PC5 is given full access to R13 but can only use show commands on R14, while PC4 is limited to the show history command on R11.
1. The document describes configuring high availability routing between two firewalls (ASA1 and ASA2) using failover, and between two routers (MLS3 and R2) using HSRP.
2. It provides configuration examples for failover on the ASAs, HSRP on MLS3 and R2, PAT on the ASA and R2, and EIGRP routing between the ASA and MLS3.
3. It also specifies default gateways for different PCs to reach R1 via the active HSRP router.
1. The document describes the configuration steps for a lab exercise involving BGP routing. It includes tasks to configure IP addresses, IBGP, HSRP, servers, and BGP routing on multiple routers as shown in the given topology diagram.
2. Key steps are to configure IBGP between routers R1-R4, HSRP between R5-R6, servers on R6, and BGP routing between all routers as specified in the tasks and topology, including IBGP, EBGP, route reflectors, and BGP confederations.
3. The goal is to verify connectivity between loopbacks and servers across the different BGP and IBGP domains as configured.
1. The document describes tasks for configuring OSPF routing on a network topology.
2. Key configurations include enabling OSPF on each router, configuring authentication for Area 1, summarizing loopback routes on R4, and preventing Area 3 routers from receiving routes from other areas.
3. PAT is configured on routers R1 and R11 to allow traffic from multiple private networks to use a single public IP address.
This document describes the configuration of a network topology with VLANs, trunking, routing, and NAT. The key tasks are:
1. Configure switches and routing with VLANs, VTP, EIGRP, and trunking to separate traffic from different client groups.
2. Perform PAT on routers R1 and R2 to allow clients to access the internet.
3. Configure a web server for clients to access via its IP address or domain name.
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VRRP (virtual router redundancy protocol)
1. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) is a computer networking protocol that provides for
automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol (IP) routers to participating hosts. This increases the
availability and reliability of routing paths via automatic default gateway selections on an IP subnetwork.
The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) eliminates the single point of failure inherent in the
static default routed environment. VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns
responsibility for a virtual router (a VPN 3000 Series Concentrator cluster) to one of the VPN
Concentrators on a LAN. The VRRP VPN Concentrator that controls the IP address(es) associated with a
virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets sent to those IP addresses. When the Master
becomes unavailable, a backup VPN Concentrator takes the place of the Master.
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) Points to Remember:
1. Open Standard Protocol (1999)
2. Hello Timer 1 sec
3. Hold Timer 3 sec
4. It use IP Protocol no 112
5. It sends multicast hellos on 224.0.0.18
6. Default Preempt enable
7. Default Priority 100
8. No inbuilt Track command
9. Default decrement in priority using external track = 10
10. VRRP Mac 000.5e00.01xx (xx is group ID)
11. It supports two types of authentication MD-5, Plain Txt.
Figure 1 Basic VRRP Terminology
2. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
VRRP Roles
(i) Master
(ii) Backup
Master – A router which gives the reply of ARP request of clients for gateway.
Master Requirement –
(i) High Priority
(ii) Higher IP
Load balancing is Possible using multiple groups like HSRP
Group ID – 1 to 255
Restrictions for VRRP
VRRP is designed for use over multiaccess, multicast, or broadcast capable Ethernet LANs. VRRP is not
intended as a replacement for existing dynamic protocols.
VRRP is supported on Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Bridge Group Virtual Interface (BVI), and Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces, and on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), VRF-aware
MPLS VPNs, and VLANs.
Because of the forwarding delay that is associated with the initialization of a BVI interface, you must
configure the VRRP advertise timer to a value equal to or greater than the forwarding delay on the BVI
interface. This setting prevents a VRRP router on a recently initialized BVI interface from unconditionally
taking over the master role. Use the bridge forward-time command to set the forwarding delay on the
BVI interface. Use the vrrp timers advertise command to set the VRRP advertisement timer.
Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT) is not stateful switchover (SSO)-aware and cannot be used with VRRP in
SSO mode.
VRRP Operation
There are several ways a LAN client can determine which router should be the first hop to a particular
remote destination. The client can use a dynamic process or static configuration. Examples of dynamic
router discovery are as follows:
1. Proxy ARP— The client uses Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to get the destination it wants to
reach, and a router will respond to the ARP request with its own MAC address.
2. Routing protocol— The client listens to dynamic routing protocol updates (for example, from
Routing Information Protocol [RIP]) and forms its own routing table.
3. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
3. ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (IRDP) client— The client runs an Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMP) router discovery client.
The drawback to dynamic discovery protocols is that they incur some configuration and processing
overhead on the LAN client. Also, in the event of a router failure, the process of switching to another
router can be slow.
An alternative to dynamic discovery protocols is to statically configure a default router on the client.
This approach simplifies client configuration and processing, but creates a single point of failure. If the
default gateway fails, the LAN client is limited to communicating only on the local IP network segment
and is cut off from the rest of the network.
VRRP can solve the static configuration problem. VRRP enables a group of routers to form a single virtual
router. The LAN clients can then be configured with the virtual router as their default gateway. The
virtual router, representing a group of routers, is also known as a VRRP group.
VRRP is supported on Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, BVI, and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and on MPLS VPNs,
VRF-aware MPLS VPNs, and VLANs.
Figure 2 LAN topology in which VRRP is configured. In this example, Routers A, B, and C are VRRP routers
(routers running VRRP) that comprise a virtual router. The IP address of the virtual router is the same as that
configured for the Ethernet interface of Router A (10.0.0.1)
4. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
Multiple Virtual Router Support
You can configure up to 255 virtual routers on a router physical interface. The actual number of virtual
routers that a router interface can support depends on the following factors:
1. Router processing capability
2. Router memory capability
3. Router interface support of multiple MAC addresses
In a topology where multiple virtual routers are configured on a router interface, the interface can act as
a master for one virtual router and as a backup for one or more virtual routers.
VRRP Router Priority and Preemption
An important aspect of the VRRP redundancy scheme is VRRP router priority. Priority determines the
role that each VRRP router plays and what happens if the virtual router master fails.
If a VRRP router owns the IP address of the virtual router and the IP address of the physical interface,
this router will function as a virtual router master.
Priority also determines if a VRRP router functions as a virtual router backup and the order of
ascendancy to becoming a virtual router master if the virtual router master fails. You can configure the
priority of each virtual router backup with a value of 1 through 254 using the vrrp priority command.
For example, if Router A, the virtual router master in a LAN topology, fails, an election process takes
place to determine if virtual router backups B or C should take over. If Routers B and C are configured
with the priorities of 101 and 100, respectively, Router B is elected to become virtual router master
because it has the higher priority. If Routers B and C are both configured with the priority of 100, the
virtual router backup with the higher IP address is elected to become the virtual router master.
By default, a preemptive scheme is enabled whereby a higher priority virtual router backup that
becomes available takes over for the virtual router backup that was elected to become virtual router
master. You can disable this preemptive scheme using the no vrrp preempt command. If preemption is
disabled, the virtual router backup that is elected to become virtual router master remains the master
until the original virtual router master recovers and becomes master again.
VRRP Advertisements
The virtual router master sends VRRP advertisements to other VRRP routers in the same group. The
advertisements communicate the priority and state of the virtual router master. The VRRP
advertisements are encapsulated in IP packets and sent to the IP Version 4 multicast address assigned to
the VRRP group. The advertisements are sent every second by default; the interval is configurable.
5. VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)
Although the VRRP protocol as per RFC 3768 does not support millisecond timers, Cisco routers allow
you to configure millisecond timers. You need to manually configure the millisecond timer values on
both the primary and the backup routers. The master advertisement value displayed in the show vrrp
command output on the backup routers is always 1 second because the packets on the backup routers
do not accept millisecond values.
You must use millisecond timers where absolutely necessary and with careful consideration and testing.
Millisecond values work only under favorable circumstances, and you must be aware that the use of the
millisecond timer values restricts VRRP operation to Cisco devices only.
VRRP Object Tracking
Object tracking is an independent process that manages creating, monitoring, and removing tracked
objects such as the state of the line protocol of an interface. Clients such as the Hot Standby Router
Protocol (HSRP), Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP), and VRRP register their interest with specific
tracked objects and act when the state of an object changes.
Each tracked object is identified by a unique number that is specified on the tracking CLI. Client
processes such as VRRP use this number to track a specific object.
The tracking process periodically polls the tracked objects and notes any change of value. The changes in
the tracked object are communicated to interested client processes, either immediately or after a
specified delay. The object values are reported as either up or down.
VRRP object tracking gives VRRP access to all the objects available through the tracking process. The
tracking process allows you to track individual objects such as a the state of an interface line protocol,
state of an IP route, or the reachability of a route.
VRRP provides an interface to the tracking process. Each VRRP group can track multiple objects that may
affect the priority of the VRRP device. You specify the object number to be tracked and VRRP is notified
of any change to the object. VRRP increments (or decrements) the priority of the virtual device based on
the state of the object being tracked.
VRRP Authentication
VRRP ignores unauthenticated VRRP protocol messages. The default authentication type is text
authentication.
You can configure VRRP text authentication, authentication using a simple MD5 key string, or MD5 key
chains for authentication.
MD5 authentication provides greater security than the alternative plain text authentication scheme.
MD5 authentication allows each VRRP group member to use a secret key to generate a keyed MD5 hash
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of the packet that is part of the outgoing packet. A keyed hash of an incoming packet is generated and if
the generated hash does not match the hash within the incoming packet, the packet is ignored.
The key for the MD5 hash can either be given directly in the configuration using a key string or supplied
indirectly through a key chain.
A router will ignore incoming VRRP packets from routers that do not have the same authentication
configuration for a VRRP group. VRRP has three authentication schemes:
1. No authentication
2. Plain text authentication
3. MD5 authentication
VRRP packets will be rejected in any of the following cases:
1. The authentication schemes differ on the router and in the incoming packet.
2. MD5 digests differ on the router and in the incoming packet.
3. Text authentication strings differ on the router and in the incoming packet.
Customizing VRRP
Customizing the behavior of VRRP is optional. Be aware that as soon as you enable a VRRP group, that
group is operating. It is possible that if you first enable a VRRP group before customizing VRRP, the
router could take over control of the group and become the virtual router master before you have
finished customizing the feature. Therefore, if you plan to customize VRRP, it is a good idea to do so
before enabling VRRP.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. interface type number
4. ip address ip-address mask
5. vrrp group description text
6. vrrp group priority level
7. vrrp group preempt [delay minimum seconds]
8. vrrp group timers advertise [msec] interval
9. vrrp group timers learn
10. exit
11. no vrrp sso
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Enabling VRRP
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. interface type number
4. ip address ip-address mask
5. vrrp group ip ip-address [secondary]
6. end
7. show vrrp [brief] | group]
8. show vrrp interface type number [brief]
Disabling a VRRP Group on an Interface
Disabling a VRRP group on an interface allows the protocol to be disabled, but the configuration to be
retained. This ability was added with the introduction of the VRRP MIB, RFC 2787, Definitions of
Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol .
You can use a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management tool to enable or disable
VRRP on an interface. Because of the SNMP management capability, the vrrp shutdown command was
introduced to represent a method via the command line interface (CLI) for VRRP to show the state that
had been configured using SNMP.
When the show running-config command is entered, you can see immediately if the VRRP group has
been configured and set to enabled or disabled. This is the same functionality that is enabled within the
MIB.
The no form of the command enables the same operation that is performed within the MIB. If the vrrp
shutdown command is specified using the SNMP interface, then entering the no vrrp shutdown
command reenables the VRRP group.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. interface type number
4. ip address ip-address mask
5. vrrp group shutdown
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Configuring VRRP Object Tracking
(Note: If a VRRP group is the IP address owner, its priority is fixed at 255 and cannot be reduced through
object tracking.)
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. track object-number interface type number {line-protocol | ip routing}
4. interface type number
5. vrrp group ip ip-address
6. vrrp group priority level
7. vrrp group track object-number [decrement priority]
8. end
9. show track [object-number]
Configuring VRRP MD5 Authentication Using a Key String
(Note: Interoperability with vendors that may have implemented the RFC 2338 method is not enabled.
Text authentication cannot be combined with MD5 authentication for a VRRP group at any one time.
When MD5 authentication is configured, the text authentication field in VRRP hello messages is set to all
zeroes on transmit and ignored on receipt, provided the receiving router also has MD5 authentication
enabled.)
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. interface type number
4. ip address ip-address mask [secondary]
5. vrrp group priority priority
6. vrrp group authentication md5 key-string [0 | 7] key-string [timeout seconds]
7. vrrp group ip [ip-address[secondary]]
8. Repeat Steps 1 through 7 on each router that will communicate.
9. end
Configuring VRRP MD5 Authentication Using a Key Chain
Perform this task to configure VRRP MD5 authentication using a key chain. Key chains allow a different
key string to be used at different times according to the key chain configuration. VRRP will query the
appropriate key chain to obtain the current live key and key ID for the specified key chain.
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SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. key chain name-of-chain
4. key key-id
5. key-string string
6. exit
7. interface type number
8. ip address ip-address mask [secondary]
9. vrrp group priority priority
10. vrrp group authentication md5 key-chain key-chain
11. vrrp group ip [ip-address[secondary]]
12. Repeat Steps 1 through 11 on each router that will communicate.
13. end
Verifying the VRRP MD5 Authentication Configuration
SUMMARY STEPS
1. show vrrp
2. debug vrrp authentication
Configuring VRRP Text Authentication
Before You Begin
Interoperability with vendors that may have implemented the RFC 2338 method is not enabled. Text
authentication cannot be combined with MD5 authentication for a VRRP group at any one time. When
MD5 authentication is configured, the text authentication field in VRRP hello messages is set to all zeros
on transmit and ignored on receipt, provided the receiving router also has MD5 authentication enabled.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. terminal interface type number
4. ip address ip-address mask [secondary]
5. vrrp group authentication text text-string
6. vrrp group ip ip-address
7. Repeat Steps 1 through 6 on each router that will communicate.
8. end
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Enabling the Router to Send SNMP VRRP Notifications
The VRRP MIB supports SNMP Get operations, which allow network devices to get reports about VRRP
groups in a network from the network management station.
Enabling VRRP MIB trap support is performed through the CLI, and the MIB is used for getting the
reports. A trap notifies the network management station when a router becomes a Master or backup
router. When an entry is configured from the CLI, the RowStatus for that group in the MIB immediately
goes to the active state.
SUMMARY STEPS
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. snmp-server enable traps vrrp
4. snmp-server host host community-string vrrp
VRRP Benefits
Redundancy
VRRP enables you to configure multiple routers as the default gateway router, which reduces the
possibility of a single point of failure in a network.
Load Sharing
You can configure VRRP in such a way that traffic to and from LAN clients can be shared by multiple
routers, thereby sharing the traffic load more equitably among available routers.
Multiple Virtual Routers
VRRP supports up to 255 virtual routers (VRRP groups) on a router physical interface, subject to the
platform supporting multiple MAC addresses. Multiple virtual router support enables you to implement
redundancy and load sharing in your LAN topology.
Multiple IP Addresses
The virtual router can manage multiple IP addresses, including secondary IP addresses. Therefore, if you
have multiple subnets configured on an Ethernet interface, you can configure VRRP on each subnet.
Preemption
The redundancy scheme of VRRP enables you to preempt a virtual router backup that has taken over for
a failing virtual router master with a higher priority virtual router backup that has become available.
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Authentication
VRRP message digest 5 (MD5) algorithm authentication protects against VRRP-spoofing software and
uses the industry-standard MD5 algorithm for improved reliability and security.
Advertisement Protocol
VRRP uses a dedicated Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) standard multicast address
(224.0.0.18) for VRRP advertisements. This addressing scheme minimizes the number of routers that
must service the multicasts and allows test equipment to accurately identify VRRP packets on a
segment. The IANA assigned VRRP the IP protocol number 112.
VRRP Object Tracking
VRRP object tracking provides a way to ensure the best VRRP router is the virtual router master for the
group by altering VRRP priorities to the status of tracked objects such as the interface or IP route states.
Example for VRRP
Figure 3 VRRP Topology
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R1 (config) #int fa0/0
R1 (config-if) #ip add 192.168.101.2 255.255.255.0
R1 (config-if) #no shut
R1 (config-if) #int s0/0
R1 (config-if) #ip add 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
R1 (config-if) #no shut
R1 (config) #router ei 100
R1 (config-router) #no auto
R1 (config-router) #network 0.0.0.0
Ho (config) #int fa0/0
Ho (config-if) #ip add 192.168.102.1 255.255.255.0
Ho (config-if) #no shut
Ho (config-if) #int s0/0
Ho (config-if) #ip add 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
Ho (config-if) #no shut
Ho (config-if) #int s0/1
Ho (config-if) #ip add 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
Ho (config-if) #no shut
Ho (config-if) #router ei 100
Ho (config-router) #no auto
Ho (config-router) #network 0.0.0.0
R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #ip add 192.168.101.3 255.255.255.0
R2 (config-if) #no shut
R2 (config-if) #int s0/0
R2 (config-if) #ip add 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0
R2 (config-if) #no shut
R2 (config-if) #router ei 100
R2 (config-router) #no auto
R2 (config-router) #network 0.0.0.0
Ho #sh ip route
R1#sh ip int br
R2#sh ip int br
Now we will provide the IP add to the PC, which is 192.168.101.10. And computer Gateway would
192.168.101.1.
R1 (config) #int fa0/0
R1 (config-if) #vrrp 1 ip 192.168.101.1
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R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #vrrp 1 ip 192.168.101.1
Now we can see the R2 will become Master and R1 will go into Backup, because R2s IP address is higher
and by default preemption is enabled in VRRP.
Comp# tracert –d 192.168.102.1
Here we can see all the data is going via R2. Because R2 is Master
R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #shut
Now R1 will become Master
Comp# tracert –d 192.168.102.1
All the traffic going via R1
R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #no shut
Once R2s Fa0/0 comes up, it will become once again Master
R1#sh vrrp
Default Hello timer 1 sec
Hold – 3 sec
Preempt – enabled by default
Default Priority 100
Virtual Mac 0000.5e00.0101
Now if the WAN link goes down
R2 (config) #int s0/0
R2 (config-if) #shut
Comp# tracert –d 192.168.102.1
First data will reach R2 and then R1
R1 will not become master here in case of serial link failure. For that we need to enable Track
command.
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R2 (config) #int s0/0
R2 (config-if) #no shut
R2 (config-if) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #vrrp 1 track?
R2 (config-if) #exit
R2 (config) #track ?
1 to 500
R2 (config) #track 1 ?
R2 (config) #track 1 int s0/0 ?
R2 (config) #track 1 int s0/0 line protocol
R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #vrrp 1 track 1
R2#sh vrrp
Track obj 1 state up decrement 10
Comp# tracert –d 192.168.102.1
Data is going via R2
R2 (config) #int s0/0
R2 (config-if) #shut
R2#sh vrrp
Priority 90
All data will go via R1
Load Balancing
For load balancing we will create one more group
Till now for Group 1, Master is R2
R1 (config) #int fa0/0
R1 (config-if) #vrrp 2 ip 192.168.101.4
R1 (config-if) #vrrp 2 priority 101
R1 (config) # track 1 int s0/0 line protocol
R1 (config) #int fa0/0
R1 (config-if) #vrrp 2 track 1
R2 (config) #int fa0/0
R2 (config-if) #vrrp 2 ip 192.168.101.4
R2#sh vrrp
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Group 1 Master, Group 2 Backup
R1#sh vrrp
Group 1 Backup, Group 2 Master
R1 (config) #int s0/0
R1 (config-if) #shut
R2 #sh vrrp
R1 (config) #int s0/0
R1 (config-if) #no shut
R1#sh vrrp
For load balancing if we provide clients default gateway is 192.168.101.1 then the data will go via R2, if
we provide clients gateway 192.168.101.4 then data will go via R1.