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<strong>UR51</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

to the time set here before actually changing its<br />

status to Up. Range: 0-180 (0 refers to immediate<br />

switching).<br />

Table 4-2-6-2 Track Parameters<br />

4.2.6.3 VRRP<br />

The Virtual <strong>Router</strong> Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a computer networking protocol that<br />

provides automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol (IP) routers for participating<br />

hosts. This increases the availability and reliability of routing paths via automatic default<br />

gateway selections in an IP sub-network.<br />

Increasing the number of exit gateway is a common method for improving system reliability.<br />

VRRP adds a group of routers that undertake gateway function into a backup group so as to<br />

form a virtual router. The election mechanism of VRRP will decide which router undertakes<br />

the forwarding task, and the host in LAN is only required to configure the default gateway for<br />

the virtual router.<br />

In VRRP, routers need to be aware of failures in the virtual master router. To achieve this, the<br />

virtual master router sends out multicast “alive” announcements to the virtual backup<br />

routers in the same VRRP group.<br />

The VRRP router who has the highest number will become the virtual master router. The<br />

VRRP router number ranges from 1 to 255 and usually we use 255 for the highest priority<br />

and 100 for backup.<br />

If the current virtual master router receives an announcement from a group member (<strong>Router</strong><br />

ID) with a higher priority, then the latter will pre-empt and become the virtual master router.<br />

VRRP has the following characteristics:<br />

- The virtual router with an IP address is known as the Virtual IP address. For the host in<br />

LAN, it is only required to know the IP address of virtual router, and set it as the address<br />

of the next hop of the default route.<br />

- The network Host communicates with the external network through this virtual router.<br />

- A router will be selected from the set of routers based on its priority to undertake the<br />

gateway function. Other routers will be used as backup routers to perform the duties of<br />

gateway for the gateway router in the case of any malfunction, so as to guarantee<br />

uninterrupted communication between the host and external network.<br />

When interface connected with the uplink is at the state of Down or Removed, the router<br />

actively lowers its priority so that priority of other routers in the backup group will be higher.<br />

Thus the router with the highest priority becomes the gateway for the transmission task.<br />

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