[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

[Daniel Verlouw]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 00:07 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> HSRP with IPv6 is there on IOS, VRRP with IPv6 is there on JunOS and 
> (as far as I understand) "coming soon" to IOS.

yep, works like a charm on Junos, same sub-second failover as on VRRP
for v4.

daniel at jun1.XXXX> show vrrp interface xe-1/0/0.28    

Physical interface: xe-1/0/0, Unit: 28, Vlan-id: 28, Address:
2001:XXX:3:1c::3/64
  Index: 169, SNMP ifIndex: 182, VRRP-Traps: enabled
  Interface state: up, Group: 1, State: master
  Priority: 150, Advertisement interval: 1, Authentication type: none
  Delay threshold: 100, Computed send rate: 0
  Preempt: yes, Preempt hold time: 120
  Accept-data mode: yes, VIP count: 2, VIP: fe80::1:1, 2001:XXX:3:1c::1 
  Advertisement Timer: 0.040s, Master router: fe80::3
  Virtual router uptime: 1d 07:08, Master router uptime: 1d 07:06
  Virtual Mac: 00:00:5e:00:02:01 
  [...]


No real experience with HSRP though, can anyone shed some light on that?
I understand it only works for link-local addresses?

   --Daniel.