[c-nsp] Rate limiting questions

[Phil Mayers]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 13:08 -0500, Justin Shore wrote:
> Phil Mayers wrote:
> >> Is there a HSRP option to tell the standby router to only route traffic 
> >> when it's active?  VRRP and GLBP would have the same problem I imagine. 
> > 
> > No. This is a frequently requested feature.
> 
> I think I'll ping my account team to add my voice to the list.  This 
> seems like an awfully easy feature addition to me.  I can't think of any 

At first hearing it does indeed seem easy. Having put some thought into
why Cisco don't offer this (fairly obvious) feature, I've concluded
there are some non-trivial difficulties doing it in the fully general
cases that HSRP can support, and on some forwarding architectures.


> downside to doing it either.
> 
> Justin