Common configuration tasks

This section provides a brief overview of the tasks that must be performed to configure VRRP and provides the CLI commands.

VRRP parameters are defined under a service interface or a router interface context. An IP address must be assigned to each IP interface. Only one IP address can be associated with an IP interface but several secondary IP addresses also be associated.

Owner and non-owner configurations must include the following parameters:

• All participating routers in a VRRP instance must be configured with the same VRID.

• All participating non-owner routers can specify up to 16 backup IP addresses (IP addresses that the master is representing). The owner configuration must include at least one backup IP address.

• For IPv6, all participating routers must be configured with the same link-local backup address (the one configured for the owner instance).

Other owner and non-owner configurations include the following optional commands:

• authentication-key

• MAC

• message-interval

In addition to the common parameters, the following non-owner commands can be configured:

• master-int-inherit

• ntp-reply

• priority

• policy

• ping-reply

• preempt

• telnet-reply

• ssh-reply (IPv4 only)

• [no] shutdown