VRRP can be configured in either the owner or non-owner mode. The owner is the VRRP router whose virtual router IP address is the same as the real interface IP address. The VRRP router configured as the owner responds to packets that are addressed to one of the IP addresses for ICMP pings, TCP connections, and others. Other virtual router instances participating in this message domain must have the same VRID configuration and cannot be configured as owner.
The 7210 SAS allows the virtual routers to be configured as non-owners of the IP address. VRRP on a router can be configured to allow non-owners to respond to ICMP echo requests when they become the virtual router in master state for the VRRP instance. Telnet and other connection-oriented protocols can also be configured for master. However, the individual application conversations (connections) will not survive a VRRP failover. A non-owner VRRP router operating as a backup will not respond to any packets addressed to any of the virtual router IP addresses.