FHRPs like HSRP and VRRP allow multiple routers to act as a single virtual router. They elect an active router to forward traffic while standby routers take over if the active fails. GLBP provides gateway load balancing and failover by electing an Active Virtual Gateway to assign virtual MACs and forward packets to Active Virtual Forwarders.
FHRPs like HSRP and VRRP allow multiple routers to act as a single virtual router. They elect an active router to forward traffic while standby routers take over if the active fails. GLBP provides gateway load balancing and failover by electing an Active Virtual Gateway to assign virtual MACs and forward packets to Active Virtual Forwarders.
FHRP illusion of a single virtual router to the hosts on the LAN
By sharing an IP address and a MAC (Layer 2)
address, two or more routers can act as a single “virtual” router.
Overview of FHRP and
HSRP provides the mechanism for determining which router should take the active role in forwarding traffic
determining when that role must
be taken over by a standby HSRP router.
The virtual router processes no physical
Virtual Router frames. There is one virtual router in an HSRP group.
VRRP differs from HSRP in that it allows
you to use an address of one of the Configure and verify First-Hop Router roles Active Router The active router physically forwards packets sent to the MAC address of the virtual router. physical VRRP group members as a virtual IP address. VRRP Redundancy Take over as an Active Router when Stand by Router there is no hello message from active router
allows for automatic selection and simultaneous
use of multiple available gateways, in addition to automatic failover between those gateways.
Members of a GLBP group elect
one gateway to be the AVG for that group
Configure and verify The AVG assigns a virtual MAC
GLBP AVG (active virtual GLBP address to each member of the GLBP gateway) group
The AVG listens to the ARP requests for the
default gateway IP and replies with a MAC address of one of the GLBP group members
responsibility for forwarding packets that
GLBP AVF (active virtual are sent to the virtual MAC address that is forwarder) assigned to that gateway by the AVG