[c-nsp] HSRP Question

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Tue Sep 26 17:54:49 EDT 2006


Hi,

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 07:38:16AM -0700, Bruce Pinsky wrote:
> However, if there is a soft failure that does not cause the interface to go
> down, the route will still be present and could result in blackholed traffic.

As it is for the "HSRP IP is inside the connected network" case - if
the interface is up, the router will happily send packets into a big
black hole...

Which is one of the big problems with HSRP/VRRP setups.

gert

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