[c-nsp] standby use-bia?

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Rodney Dunn wrote:

> His subject line daid "use-bia" but I don't see it
> mentioned in the email anywhere.
>
> > > We ran into an issue recently where an HSRP switchover happened and a
> > > bunch of our L3 switches either didn't get or didn't act on the
> > > gratuitous arp the active router is supposed to send when it's
> > > configured with use-bia and goes active.  This got me thinking about
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > ways around having the HSRP group members having different MAC
> > > addresses.

The issue is, I'm using use-bia now, and it's caused problems.  In my
original message, I implied that one of the options I think would work is
to use-bia on one 7500 and use that 7500's bia on the others via
configured virtual mac addr.  My fear in that case is that at some point
the router with use-bia might decide to use a different bia (from a
different FE card...we're doing etherchannel, so each router would have
several bias to choose from) and cause the problem I'm hoping to avoid.
So it seems like picking/making up a mac addr and configuring that to be
the virtual mac addr on all the HSRP group members would be the best way
to go.  I just wonder why that doesn't seem to be documented as a
recommended way to get around the VIP2/VIP4 32 AF limit.  i.e. I have to
wonder if there's some gotcha I haven't considered that makes this a bad
idea?...other than what would happen if I just randomly picked a mac addr
and something on the LAN happened to have that as its mac addr.

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