Thanks! That is the answer i was looking for!
Evan Francen wrote:
> You CAN'T use one of your physical router IP addresses for the virtual.
> There will be problems with the MAC addresses learned and cached by your
> clients. The MAC address for the virtual router is virtual, the MAC address
> for the router is physical. The correct answer would be to 1)re-address
> your network (using a subnet mask other than 240), allowing more IP
> addresses, 2)use DHCP with a short lease period and lease IP addresses as
> needed, or 3)use ip unnumbered on the routers freeing two IP addresses and
> then using one of the freed addresses for your virtual. I have tried "3" in
> lab, and it worked fine. There are probably more solutions, but these were
> from the top of my head.
>
> HTH,
> Evan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipguru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: hsrp question..a tough one for me
>
> A question was recently posed:
>
> Two routers-subnet for 12 hosts. Do hsrp.
>
> naturally you assume a subnet for 14 hosts, one address each for router
> a and b. then don't you need an address for the virtual ip for hsrp.
> This only leaves 11 host addresses available.
>
> My question was, "can you use one of the addresses from one of the
> routers for the virtual ip address for hsrp". This would put you back
> up to 12 host addresses.
>
> Is this the right answer?
>
> thanks,
> bk
>
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