[c-nsp] FHRP selection within Nexus

Andrew Miehs andrew at 2sheds.de
Wed Nov 13 13:16:15 EST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 13/11/13 17:07, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List wrote:
>
>  I am weighing options between HSRP and GLBP knowing that GLBP is
>> Cisco only.  This environment will be Cisco only for the foreseeable
>>
>
> If you need the performance, use GLBP. Otherwise use HSRP, because it's
> marginally simpler and more common (therefore better tested).
>

HSRP is dual active on the Nexus, so I would just go with that.

Should you ever decide to buy another hardware platform, I would then
possibly reconsider the decision at that stage. This is really not that
hard to change.


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