RE: [nsp] Maximum number of HSRP groups.....

From: Ian Cox (icox@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 12:06:11 EDT


At 09:45 AM 10/10/2000 +0100, Desmarais, Jonathan wrote:
>We have near to 150 HSRP groups in a CAT6500 environment and I can see us
>reaching 255 soon. Does HSRP traffic only exist on the segment (IP and
>physical) it is relative to?

Yes, this is the case.

You can have far more than 255 HSRP instances running, across unique
segments, you are limited to 255 on a single segement.

Ian

>If this is the case then there should be no
>problem duplicating HSRP group numbers.
>
>Jon
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew [mailto:arousch@home.com]
> > Sent: 06 October 2000 21:19
> > To: Greene, Patrick; 'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net'
> > Subject: Re: [nsp] Maximum number of HSRP groups.....
> >
> >
> > it's something that you will not approach on a practical level :^)
> >
> > At 04:05 PM 10/6/00 -0400, Greene, Patrick wrote:
> >
> > >2 Questions...
> > >1) What is the maximum number of HSRP groups you can define
> > on a 6500
> > >MSFC? I'm pretty confident it is 255 but I would like
> > someone to to tell
> > >me it not so...:)
> > >
> > >2) Does anybody know if this is going to be raised in the
> > near future?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Patrick Greene
> >
>
>
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