[j-nsp] VRRP and preempt

[Scott Morris]

You can change the startup time within the VRRP config.  (I think it's
something catchy like the startup-time under set protocols vrrp if I
remember right)

But yes, it would certainly make sense to be sure that the routing
protocol(s) have converged and calculated prior to accepting all of the
incoming traffic!

Scott
 

-----Original Message-----
From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jee Kay
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:15 AM
To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [j-nsp] VRRP and preempt

I've got a pair of M5s (running 6.3R1.4 which I know is old etc etc) that
present a number of VRRP addresses to end systems. Both of them have
'preempt { hold-time 600; }' configured for all of their addresses.

Despite this, when the 'primary' router reboots and comes back online, it
_immediately_ takes ownership of all the VRRP addresses resulting in an
outage as it seems to start its VRRP processes before its OSPF processes and
therefore is clueless as to what to do with the data it's just decided it
should be getting.

Has anyone else seen this? Part of me is wondering if this is because of
spanning-tree delays on the switchports they plug in to, so that the primary
ends up thinking the secondary is muscling in on its territory rather than
the other way around. If so, what do other people do? Is it accepted
practice to set port-fast on ports facing such equipment?

Thanks in advance,
Ras
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