[j-nsp] VRRP max group limit?

Gary Tate gtate at juniper.net
Fri Oct 28 12:29:35 EDT 2005


Sorry I misunderstood your question.  The limit or scaling is dependent 
on the platform, the RE and what may also be configured on the same box. 
  For example having BFD, an IGP adjacency and VRRP running over each 
vlan will effect the scaling numbers.

You can get official numbers from your local rep or PLM,
Gary

Erik Haagsman wrote:
> That's right, on a single broadcast medium you can only go from 00 - ff
> so 0 - 255. I was referring to the JunOS process level limit of the
> number of VRRP groups on a single router. I did a quick search through
> my docs and by tweaking the timers you can increase the default 255 per
> router limit up to 1024 groups per router total, though as you pointed
> out, not on the same interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erik
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:02 -0700, Gary Tate wrote:
>>  From what I can remember from the RFC there are only groups 0-255 
>> allowed per broadcast domain - they may have updated that since I last 
>> read it.
>>
>> group-number—VRRP group identifier. If you enable MAC source address 
>> filtering on the interface, as described in Configure MAC Address 
>> Filtering, you must include the virtual MAC address in the list of 
>> source MAC addresses that you specify in the source-address-filter 
>> statement. MAC addresses ranging from 00:00:5e:00:01:00 through 
>> 00:00:5e:00:01:ff are reserved for VRRP, as defined in RFC 2338. The 
>> VRRP group number must be the decimal equivalent of the last hexadecimal 
>> byte of the virtual MAC address.
>> Range: 0 through 255
>>
>> Its tied to the VRID and the MAC address so I dont think it will be changing
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Erik Haagsman wrote:
>>> Actually, by tweaking the VRRP timers you can go higher, I think to
>>> something like 720 groups if memory serves me well, do a search in the
>>> j-nsp archives and you'll get the exact number, it's been asked and
>>> answered before.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 15:31 -0500, Hyunseog Ryu wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to migrate Cisco router HSRP to Juniper's VRRP configuration.
>>>> Is there recommendation or suggestion for this migration project?
>>>> I see VRRP group ranged from 0 to 255 from JUNOS 7.0R2.7.
>>>> Is there any change for higher version or future version planned?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Hyun
>>>>
>>>>
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