Deployment Guide

CP processor increases or decreases based on the dynamics of the network, the advertisement intervals in may increase or decrease
accordingly.
Table 90. Recommended VRRP Advertise Intervals
Recommended Advertise Interval Groups/Interface
Less than 250 1 second 255
Between 250 and 450 2–3 seconds 255
Between 450 and 600 3–4 seconds 255
VRRP Conguration
By default, VRRP is not congured.
Conguration Task List
The following list species the conguration tasks for VRRP.
Creating a Virtual Router (mandatory)
Conguring the VRRP Version for an IPv4 Group (optional)
Assign Virtual IP addresses (mandatory)
Setting VRRP Group (Virtual Router) Priority (optional)
Conguring VRRP Authentication (optional)
Disabling Preempt (optional)
Changing the Advertisement Interval (optional)
Track an Interface or Object (optional)
Setting VRRP Initialization Delay (optional)
For a complete listing of all commands related to VRRP, refer to Dell Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Creating a Virtual Router
To enable VRRP, create a virtual router. In Dell, the virtual router identier (VRID) identies a VRRP group.
To enable or delete a virtual router, use the following commands.
Create a virtual router for that interface with a VRID.
INTERFACE mode
vrrp-group vrid
The VRID range is from 1 to 255.
NOTE
: The interface must already have a primary IP address dened and be enabled, as shown in the second
example.
Delete a VRRP group.
INTERFACE mode
no vrrp-group vrid
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Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)