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

From: Steve Meuse (smeuse@genuity.net)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 13:18:56 EDT


At 09:06 AM 10/10/2000 -0700, Ian Cox wrote:
>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

Beware that some non-cisco switches *may* have issues. Cabletron had issues
with securefast and HSRP initially, due to some MAC layer caching issue. It
hit us a few years back.

-Steve



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