High Availability

Part-1: Hot Standby Router

Protocol
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 HSRP
Hot Standby Router Protocol Active

Cisco proprietary My gateway is

1.1.1.3

1.1.1.1 Virtual Router

1.1.1.1

Uses UDP port 1985 and multicast address 1.1.1.2

224.0.0.2

Standby
Two roles: Active and Standby
HSRP router with highest priority is considered Active
Default priority = 100
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HSRP
MAC address: 0000.0c07.acxx
xx refers to the group number in hexadecimal
Preemption disabled by default
HSRP/VRRP = No load-sharing feature
MHSRP can be used for load sharing

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 Implementing Basic HSRP
Enabling HSRP in the interface
Switch(config-if)# standby <group-id> ip <virtual-ip>
Configuring priority
Switch(config-if)# standby <group-id> priority <priority>
Enabling preemption
Switch(config-if)# standby <group-id> preempt

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 HSRP State Machine
Disabled
Initial (INIT)
Learn
Listen
Speak
Standby / Active
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 HSRP Hello Timers
HSRP Hello timer = 3-secs
Dead Timer = 10-secs (or 3x Hello)

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 Modifying Preemption Behavior
HSRP Preemption can be delayed to allow
time for other protocols to re-build their
tables.

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 HSRP Authentication (interface keys)
Authentication supported
Plain text
MD5
Plain-text configuration
Sw1(config-if)#standby <group-id> authentication
<password>
MD5 configuration
Sw1(config-if)#standby <group-id> authentication md5 key-string [0|7]
string
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 HSRP Authentication (key chain keys)
HSRP can obtain current/active MD5 key from a key chain.
NTP should also be configured.

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 HSRP Object Tracking
HSRP can track objects (typically interfaces)
If tracked object fails, HSRP priority is reduced by
configurable amount (default=10)
Active
Standby

Ser0/0
1.1.1.3
My gateway is
1.1.1.1 Virtual Router
1.1.1.1

1.1.1.2

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Active
 HSRP Object Tracking
First, create a track object globally
Router-1(config)#track 1 ?
application Application
interface Select an interface to track
ip IP protocol
ipv6 IPv6 protocol
list Group objects in a list
stub-object Stub tracking object
(config-if)#standby <group> track <object#> [decrement
value]
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 Verifying HSRP
Verification commands
Switch# show standby
Switch# show standby brief

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