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The Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is an IP routing redundancy protocol designed to allow for transparent failover at the first-hop IP router. HSRP provides high network availability, because it routes IP traffic from hosts on networks without relying on the availability of any single router. HSRP is used in a group of routers for selecting an active router and a standby router. (An active router is the router of choice for routing packets; a standby router is a router that takes over the routing duties when an active router fails, or when preset conditions are met.)
You must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes the proper task IDs. The command reference guides include the task IDs required for each command. If you suspect user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator for assistance.
HSRP is supported on Ethernet interfaces, Ethernet sub-interfaces, Ethernet link bundles, and Bridge Virtual Interfaces (BVIs).
To implement HSRP on Cisco IOS XR software software, you need to understand the following concepts:
HSRP is useful for hosts that do not support a router discovery protocol (such as Internet Control Message Protocol [ICMP] Router Discovery Protocol [IRDP]) and cannot switch to a new router when their selected router reloads or loses power. Because existing TCP sessions can survive the failover, this protocol also provides a more transparent recovery for hosts that dynamically choose a next hop for routing IP traffic.
When HSRP is configured on a network segment, it provides a virtual MAC address and an IP address that is shared among a group of routers running HSRP. The address of this HSRP group is referred to as the virtual IP address. One of these devices is selected by the protocol to be the active router. The active router receives and routes packets destined for the MAC address of the group. For n routers running HSRP, n + 1 IP and MAC addresses are assigned.
HSRP detects when the designated active router fails, at which point a selected standby router assumes control of the MAC and IP addresses of the HSRP group. A new standby router is also selected at that time.
Devices that are running HSRP send and receive multicast User Datagram Protocol (UDP) based hello packets to detect router failure and to designate active and standby routers.
An HSRP group consists of two or more routers running HSRP that are configured to provide hot standby services for one another. HSRP uses a priority scheme to determine which HSRP-configured router is to be the default active router. To configure a router as the active router, you assign it a priority that is higher than the priority of all the other HSRP-configured routers. The default priority is 100, so if you configure just one router to have a higher priority, that router will be the default active router.
HSRP works by the exchange of multicast messages that advertise priority among the HSRP group. When the active router fails to send a hello message within a configurable period of time, the standby router with the highest priority becomes the active router. The transition of packet-forwarding functions between routers is completely transparent to all hosts on the network.
The following figure shows routers configured as members of a single HSRP group.
All hosts on the network are configured to use the IP address of the virtual router (in this case, 1.0.0.3) as the default gateway.
A single router interface can also be configured to belong to more than one HSRP group. The following figure shows routers configured as members of multiple HSRP groups.
In the figure above, the Ethernet interface 0 of Router A belongs to group 1. Ethernet interface 0 of Router B belongs to groups 1, 2, and 3. The Ethernet interface 0 of Router C belongs to group 2, and the Ethernet interface 0 of Router D belongs to group 3. When you establish groups, you might want to align them along departmental organizations. In this case, group 1 might support the Engineering Department, group 2 might support the Manufacturing Department, and group 3 might support the Finance Department.
Router B is configured as the active router for groups 1 and 2 and as the standby router for group 3. Router D is configured as the active router for group 3. If Router D fails for any reason, Router B assumes the packet-transfer functions of Router D and maintains the ability of users in the Finance Department to access data on other subnets.
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A different virtual MAC address (VMAC) is required for each sub interface. VMAC is determined from the group ID. Therefore, a unique group ID is required for each sub interface configured, unless the VMAC is configured explicitly. |
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We recommend that you disable Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on switch ports to which the virtual routers are connected. Enable RSTP or rapid-PVST on the switch interfaces if the switch supports these protocols. |
When a router in an HSRP group goes active, it sends a number of ARP responses containing its virtual IP address and the virtual MAC address. These ARP responses help switches and learning bridges update their port-to-MAC maps. These ARP responses also provide routers configured to use the burned-in address of the interface as its virtual MAC address (instead of the preassigned MAC address or the functional address) with a means to update the ARP entries for the virtual IP address. Unlike the gratuitous ARP responses sent to identify the interface IP address when an interface comes up, the HSRP router ARP response packet carries the virtual MAC address in the packet header. The ARP data fields for IP address and media address contain the virtual IP and virtual MAC addresses.
The HSRP preemption feature enables the router with highest priority to immediately become the active router. Priority is determined first by the priority value that you configure, and then by the IP address. In each case, a higher value is of greater priority.
When a higher-priority router preempts a lower-priority router, it sends a coup message. When a lower-priority active router receives a coup message or hello message from a higher-priority active router, it changes to the speak state and sends a resign message.
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a network layer Internet protocol that provides message packets to report errors and other information relevant to IP processing. ICMP provides many diagnostic functions and can send and redirect error packets to the host. When running HSRP, it is important to prevent hosts from discovering the interface (or real) MAC addresses of routers in the HSRP group. If a host is redirected by ICMP to the real MAC address of a router, and that router later fails, then packets from the host are lost.
ICMP redirect messages are automatically enabled on interfaces configured with HSRP. This functionality works by filtering outgoing ICMP redirect messages through HSRP, where the next-hop IP address may be changed to an HSRP virtual IP address.
To support ICMP redirects, redirect messages are filtered through HSRP, where the next-hop IP address is changed to an HSRP virtual address. When HSRP redirects are turned on, ICMP interfaces with HSRP do this filtering. HSRP keeps track of all HSRP routers by sending advertisements and maintaining a real IP address to virtual IP address mapping to perform the redirect filtering.
This section contains instructions for the following tasks:
The hsrp ipv4 command activates HSRP on the configured interface. If an IP address is specified, that address is used as the designated address for the Hot Standby group. If no IP address is specified, the virtual address is learned from the active router. For HSRP to elect a designated router, at least one router in the Hot Standby group must have been configured with, or learned, the designated address. Configuring the designated address on the active router always overrides a designated address that is currently in use.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
Activate HSRP on the configured interface.
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/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group submode. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* Activate HSRP on the configured interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address {learn|address[secondary]}
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# commitRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface GigabitEthernet0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
address learn
!
Router# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/0/0/2
address-family ipv4
hsrp <1-4095> version <1-2>
address 10.20.30.1
address 10.20.30.2 secondary
!Use the following steps to enable HSRP for IPv6.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
Activate HSRP on the configured interface and assigns a linklocal IPv6 address..
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Activate HSRP on the configured interface and assigns a global IPv6 address.
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If you configure HSRP for IPv6, you must configure a link local IPv6 address or enable it using the autoconfig keyword. If you do not configure a linklocal IPv6 address, the router does not accept the configuration when you commit your changes using the commit keyword. |
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group submode. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number>
/* Activate HSRP on the configured interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address global <ipv6-address>
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# commitRouter# show running-configuration
configure
router hsrp
interface GigabitEthernet0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1
address linklocal autoconfig
address global 2001:DB8:A:B::1
!Router# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/0/0/2
address-family ipv6
hsrp <1-4095>
address global 1:1::1
address linklocal autoconfig
!To configure other Hot Standby group attributes that affect how the local router participates in HSRP, use the following procedure in interface configuration mode as needed:
Enable HSRP configuration mode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
(Optional) Configure HSRP priority.
The assigned priority is used to help select the active and standby routers. Assuming that preemption is enabled, the router with the highest priority becomes the designated active router. In case of ties, the primary IP addresses are compared, and the higher IP address has priority.
The priority of the device can change dynamically if an interface is configured with the track command and another interface on the device goes down.
If preemption is not enabled using the preempt command, the router may not become active even though it might have a higher priority than other HSRP routers.
To restore the default HSRP priority values, use the no priority command.
(Optional) Configure an interface so that the Hot Standby priority changes on the basis of the availability of other interfaces.
When a tracked interface goes down, the Hot Standby priority decreases by 10. If an interface is not tracked, its state changes do not affect the Hot Standby priority. For each interface configured for Hot Standby, you can configure a separate list of interfaces to be tracked.
The optional priority-decrement argument specifies by how much to decrement the Hot Standby priority when a tracked interface goes down. When the tracked interface comes back up, the priority is incrementally increased by the same amount.
When multiple tracked interfaces are down and the priority-decrement argument has been configured, these configured priority decrements are cumulative. If tracked interfaces are down, but none of them were configured with priority decrements, the default decrement is 10 and it is cumulative.
The preempt command must be used in conjunction with this command on all routers in the group whenever the best available router should be used to forward packets. If the preempt command is not used, the active router stays active, regardless of the current priorities of the other HSRP routers.
To remove the tracking, use the no preempt command.
(Optional) Configure HSRP preemption and preemption delay.
When you configure preemption and preemption delay with the preempt command, the local router attempts to assume control as the active router when the local router has a Hot Standby priority higher than the current active router. If the preempt command is not configured, the local router assumes control as the active router only if it receives information indicating that no router is currently in the active state (acting as the designated router).
When a router first comes up, it does not have a complete routing table. If it is configured to preempt, it becomes the active router, yet it is unable to provide adequate routing services. This problem can be solved by configuring a delay before the preempting router actually preempts the currently active router.
The preempt delay seconds value does not apply if there is no router currently in the active state. In this case, the local router becomes active after the appropriate timeouts (see the timers command), regardless of the preempt delay seconds value.
To restore the default HSRP preemption and preemption delay values, use the no preempt command.
(Optional) Configure an authentication string for the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
The authentication string is sent unencrypted in all HSRP messages. The same authentication string must be configured on all routers and access servers on a LAN to ensure interoperation.
Authentication mismatch prevents a device from learning the designated Hot Standby IP address and the Hot Standby timer values from other routers configured with HSRP.
Authentication mismatch does not prevent protocol events such as one router taking over as the designated router.
To delete an authentication string, use the no authentication command.
/* Enable HSRP configuration mode. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group submode. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* (Optional) Configure HSRP priority. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# priority <priority>
/* (Optional) Configure an interface so that the Hot Standby priority changes on the basis of the availability of other interfaces. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# track <type> instance <priority-decrement>
/* (Optional) Configure an authentication string for the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# authentication <string>
Router# show running-configuration
configure
router hsrp
interface TenGigE0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
priority 100
track TenGigE0/3/0/1
preempt
authentication company1
!
!
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!The activation delay for HSRP is designed to delay the startup of the state machine when an interface comes up. This give the network time to settle and avoids unnecessary state changes early after the link comes up.
Enable HSRP configuration mode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Configure the delay of startup of the state machine.
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The reload delay is the delay applied after the first interface up event. The minimum delay is the delay that is applied after any subsequent interface up event (if the interface flaps). |
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
Activate HSRP on the configured interface.
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/* Enable HSRP configuration mode. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Configure the delay of startup of the state machine. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# hsrp delay minimum <seconds> reload <seconds>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group submode. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* Activate HSRP on the configured interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address { learn | address [secondary] }
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# commit
Router# show running-configuration
configure
router hsrp
interface TenGigE0/2/0/1
hsrp delay minimum 2 reload 10
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1
address learn
!
By default, HSRP filtering of ICMP redirect messages is enabled on routers running HSRP.
To configure the reenabling of this feature on your router if it is disabled, use the hsrp redirects command in interface configuration mode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
Activate HSRP on the configured interface.
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Configure Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages to be sent when the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is configured on an interface.
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/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Configure Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages to be sent when the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is configured on an interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# hsrp redirects disable
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group submode. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* Activate HSRP on the configured interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address {learn|address[secondary]}
Router# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
address learn
!
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hsrp redirects disable
!
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Multiple Group Optimization provides a solution for reducing control traffic in a deployment consisting of many subinterfaces. By running the HSRP control traffic for just one of the sessions, the control traffic is reduced for the subinterfaces with identical redundancy requirements. All other sessions are subordinates of this primary session, and inherit their states from it.
Customizing the behavior of HSRP is optional. Be aware that as soon as you enable a HSRP group, that group is in operation.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group submode.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
Configure an HSRP session name.
Enables hot standby protocol for IP.
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If an IP address is specified, that address is used as the designated address for the Hot Standby group. If no IP address is specified, the virtual address is learned from the active router. |
Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router.
Configure an authentication string for the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface.
Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group.
Configure the primary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> version <version-no>
/* Configure an HSRP session name. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# name <name>
/* Enable hot standby protocol for IP. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address { learn | address}
/* Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# address <address> secondary
/* Configures an authentication string for the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# authentication <string>
/* Enables HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# hsrp <group-no> slave
/* Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group. */
Router(config-hsrp-slave)# follow mgo-session-name
/* Configure the primary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group.
Router(config-hsrp-slave)# address <ip-address>
Router# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
name s1
address learn
address 1198.51.100.1 secondary
authentication company1
hsrp 2 slave
follow s1
address 192.0.2.1
!
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To enable hot standby protocol for IP, use the address (hsrp) command in the HSRP group submode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface.
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Enable hot standby protocol for IP.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* Enable hot standby protocol for IP. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# address { learn | address }Router# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
address learn
!
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To configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router, use the address secondary command in the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) virtual router submode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface.
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Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-number> version <version-no>
/* Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# address <address> secondaryRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
192.0.2.1
!
!
!
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Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface.
Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> slave
/* Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group. */
Router(config-hsrp-slave)# address <ip-address>Running ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 slave
address 192.0.2.1
!
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To configure the primary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group, use the subordinate primary virtual IPv4 address command in the HSRP slave submode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface.
Configure the primary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> slave
/* Configure the primary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group. */
Router(config-hsrp-slave)# address <ip-address>Running ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 slave
address 192.0.2.1
!
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Perform this task to configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface.
Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for a router.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> slave
/* Configure the secondary virtual IPv4 address for the subordinate group. */
Router(config-hsrp-slave)# address <ip-address> secondaryRunning ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 slave
address 192.0.2.1 secondary
!
!
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To configure the virtual MAC address for the subordinate group, use the subordinate virtual mac address command in the HSRP slave submode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP slave configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> slaveRunning ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 slave
!
!
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To configure an HSRP session name, use the session name command in the HSRP group submode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface.
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Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> hsrp <version-no>
/* Configure the subordinate group to inherit its state from a specified group. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# name <name>Running ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 2
name s1 !
!
!
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Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a network protocol used to detect faults between two forwarding engines. BFD sessions operate in asynchronous mode. In asynchronous mode, both endpoints periodically send hello packets to each other. If a number of those packets are not received, the session is considered down.
BFD provides failure detection in less than one second.
BFD supports all types of encapsulation.
BFD is not tied to any particular routing protocol, supports almost all routing protocols.
HSRP uses BFD to detect link failure and facilitate fast failover times without excessive control packet overhead.
The HSRP process creates BFD sessions as required. When a BFD session goes down, each Standby group monitoring the session transitions to Active state.
HSRP doesn't participate in any state elections for 10 seconds, after a transition to Active state that a BFD session going down triggers.
Configuring BFD
Router#
configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp[group number] version <version-no> bfd fast-detect [peer ipv4 <ipv4-address> <interface-type> <interface-path-id>]
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Minimum interval determines the frequency of sending BFD packets to BFD peers (in milliseconds). The default minimum interval is 15ms.
Router#
configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
Router(config-hsrp-if)# hsrp bfd minimum-interval <interval>
router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
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Router#
configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
Router(config-hsrp-if)# hsrp bfd multiplier <multiplier>
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
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A failure between the active router and the core network cannot be detected using standard HSRP failure detection mechanisms. Object tracking is used to detect such failures. When such a failure occurs, the active router applies a priority decrement to its HSRP session. If this causes its priority to fall below that of the standby router, it will detect this from the HSRP control traffic, and then use this as a trigger to preempt and take over the active role.
Cisco IOS XR software supports up to 512 tracked objects.
The enhanced object tracking for HSRP and IP Static feature provides first-hop redundancy as well as default gateway selection based on IP Service Level Agreement (IPSLA).
See the Routing Configuration Guide, for more information about enhanced object tracking for static routes.
To enable tracking of the named object with the specified decrement, use the following configuration in the HSRP group sub mode.
Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface.
Enable HSRP group sub-mode on a specific interface.
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The version keyword is available only if IPv4 address-family is selected. By default, version is set to 2 for IPv6 address families. |
Enable tracking of the named object with the specified decrement.
/* Enable HSRP interface configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router# configure
Router(config)# router hsrp
Router(config-hsrp)# interface <type> <interface-path-id>
/* Enable HSRP address-family configuration mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-if)# address-family ipv4
/* Enable HSRP group sub-mode on a specific interface. */
Router(config-hsrp-ipv4)# hsrp <group-no> hsrp <version-no>
/* Enable tracking of the named object with the specified decrement. */
Router(config-hsrp-gp)# track object <name> [priority-decrement]Running ConfigurationRouter# show running-configuration
router hsrp
interface TenGigE 0/2/0/1
address-family ipv4
hsrp 1 version 1
track object t1 2
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In the event of failure of a HSRP process in one active group, forced failovers in peer HSRP active router groups should be prevented. Hot restartability supports warm RP failover without incurring forced failovers to peer HSRP routers for active groups.
This section provides the following HSRP configuration examples:
The following is an example of enabling HSRP on an interface and configuring HSRP group attributes:
configure
router hsrp
interface 0/2/0/1
hsrp 1 ipv4 1.0.0.5
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hsrp 1 timers 100 200
hsrp 1 preempt delay 500
hsrp priority 20
hsrp track 0/2/0/2
hsrp 1 authentication company0
hsrp use-bia
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The following is an example of configuring a router for multiple HSRP groups:
configure
router hsrp
interface 0/2/0/3
hsrp 1 ipv4 1.0.0.5
hsrp 1 priority 20
hsrp 1 preempt
hsrp 1 authentication sclara
hsrp 2 ipv4 1.0.0.6
hsrp 2 priority 110
hsrp 2 preempt
hsrp 2 authentication mtview
hsrp 3 ipv4 1.0.0.7
hsrp 3 preempt
hsrp 3 authentication svale
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