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HSRP Protocol

By | March 12, 2020

HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) is a cisco proprietary protocol. it is used for default gateway redundancy. It elects one router as active and one router as standby and puts all other routers in listen HSRP state. Active router is used as default gateway for hosts. It receives the ARP request from all the hosts… Read More »

VRRP Protocol

By | March 11, 2020

VRRP (Virtual Router redundancy protocol) is an open standard default gateway redundancy protocol and it is is alternative for HSRP. It uses one router as master and all other routers are used as backup for master. A router with highest VRRP priority elects master and all other routers move in to VRRP backup state. If… Read More »