HSRP is for router redundancy, not WAN circuit redundancy. If you wanted to
have internet or WAN circuit redundacy, you would of course use two lines,
have equal-cost routes (two default routes...etc) and that's all that's
involved. HSRP not needed for WAN load-balancing/redundancy...
Marc
"Sam Sneed" wrote in message
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> I was doing a little research on HSRP and had a question for anyone who
has
> configured it. I read the whole RFC 2281 and could not find my answer
there.
> If you have two routers running HSRP with T1 lines to the internet, 1 is
the
> standby and one is the active. Does all traffic only go through the active
> at all times unless it dies? If so isn't it a waste not ever utilizing the
> T1 line thats on standby (of course until the active fails)?
>
> If bandwidth exceeded 1.5MB would the second router kick in to share the
> load or would it totally take over?
>
> With these 2 routers acting as a single virtual router would throughput
> ever be able to exceed 1.54 MB assuming each has its own T1 connection?
>
> thanks
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