[nsp] HSRP and VLANs

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboehmer at cisco.com
Tue Dec 16 16:44:34 EST 2003


Gert,

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:03:51PM +0100, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)
> wrote: 
> > > Is there a limit (other than the number of VLANs a router can
> > > support) on the number of standby IPs that can be configured?
> > 
> > HSRP can support up to 255 groups, even in a Vlan configuration (so
> > you can't re-use the same group-id in another vlan, a restriction
> > which 
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > might be gone in newer releases, haven't checked in a long time).
> 
> Unless I'm misunderstanding you, our cisco's don't believe you...:

Oh, sorry, I was referring to subinterfaces (i.e. interface Fastx/y.<n>)
where hsrp group x can't be re-used on another subinterface within the
same main interface. Vlan-interfaces on RSM/RSFC/MSFC have never been
subject to this restrictions, sorry for the confusion..

	oli



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