<div>I am trying to get VRRP (not VRRP-extended) working between two BigIron 8k's. It appears they aren't seeing each other and both become master, thus cause an IP conflict etc. I'm new to Foundry so hopefully I'm not missing something simple.
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<div>One is running version 07.0.10T53 the other is 07.1.24T53.</div>
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<div>The two swtiches are functioning as layer3 switches and have very simple conifgurations. Access ports, some trunking with vlan-tagged ports linked to some access layer2 switches. One is the STP root, the other is the secondary root. No QOS. All routing is static, no dynamic protocols. Each switch has 5x layer3 ve interfaces. The two switches are connected together by with two seperate 2x gig-e trunks with vlan-tagging. I am able to ping all layer3 interfaces from each switch as well as connect to both via telnet remotely, which indicates to me that the trunking and vlan-tagging is working correctly.
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<div>The config looked like this (switch-1 is supposed to be the master, switch-2 is supposed to be the backup)</div>
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<p>switch-1#sho ip vrrp<br>Total number of VRRP routers defined: 1<br>Interface ethernet v3<br> auth-type no authentication<br> VRID 3<br> state master<br> administrative-status enabled<br> mode owner <br> priority 255
<br> current priority 255<br> hello-interval 1 sec<br> ip-address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.2/" target="_blank">192.168.101.2</a><br> advertise backup: disabled
<br> backup routers <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.45/" target="_blank">192.168.101.45</a><br>switch-1#</p>
<p>switch-1#show run<br>--SNIP--<br>!<br>interface ve 3<br> ip address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.2/" target="_blank">192.168.101.2</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://255.255.255.0/" target="_blank">
255.255.255.0</a><br> ip helper-address 1 <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.100.40/" target="_blank">192.168.100.40</a><br> ip vrrp vrid 3<br> owner
<br> ip-address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.2/" target="_blank">192.168.101.2</a><br> activate<br>!<br>--SNIP--</p>
<p><br>switch-2#sho ip vrrp<br>Total number of VRRP routers defined: 1<br>Interface ethernet v3<br> auth-type no authentication<br> VRID 3<br> state master<br> administrative-status enabled<br> mode non-owner(backup)<br>
priority 100<br> current priority 100<br> hello-interval 1 sec<br> dead-interval 0 sec<br> current dead-interval 3.600 sec<br> preempt-mode true<br> ip-address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.2/" target="_blank">
192.168.101.2</a><br> advertise backup: disabled <br> next hello sent in 00:00:00<br>switch-2#</p>
<p>switch-2#show run<br>--SNIP--<br>!<br>interface ve 3<br> ip address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.45/" target="_blank">192.168.101.45</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://255.255.255.0/" target="_blank">
255.255.255.0</a><br> ip helper-address 1 <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.100.40/" target="_blank">192.168.100.40</a><br> ip vrrp vrid 3<br> backup<br> ip-address <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://192.168.101.2/" target="_blank">
192.168.101.2</a><br> activate<br>!<br>--SNIP--</p></div>
<div>I tried pinging the VRRP hello multicast address from each switch and did not get a response, I'm not sure if this is by design or if it's another symptom.</div>
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<div>Any thoughts on how to further debug the problem?</div>