>Howard, Priscilla, et al.-
>
>I'm working on knocking out the BCMSN exam, and am re-covering HSRP -(which
I
>have read many on this list to state that it probably won't hardly be on the
>test, but I don't care)....
>
>Here's my delima.... I'm a logical thinker, and going over the 6 different
>states of HSRP, I find myself asking WHY about a specific statement made in
>all the study materials... the WHY is about the following.
>
>Taken from Sybex Switching Study Guide, Pg 314, it explains the 6 states in
>simple terms. Specifically, it says " the router enters the Learn state
when
>it has not heard from the Active router"... this part I can accept, and it
>makes since. It continues to say " It does not know the active router
[which
>still makes since, since it hasn't heard from it yet] and does not know the
>IP
>of the Virtual Router." The second half of this last statement is what I
>don't understand.
>
>When configuring HSRP, you configure on the Interface (ex: FastEthernet 0/0)
>[Standby] [IP 10.1.0.200]
>If you specify the VR IP address, why on earth does the router NOT know the
>VR
>IP address in the Learn State. Does it simply ignore this config parameter
>when initializing HSRP and only reference it when it A) finds itself to be
>the
>first one to be Active router after already going through all the other
>states, or B) When it finds itself to be next in line (because of priority)
>when the Active router disappears for longer than the hello/holdtime
>interval,
>and it suddenly experiences "amnesia" and has to look at its own config to
go
>'Oh yeah, Everybody, I'm now the active router for... uh... let see..... oh,
>right, virtual router 10.1.0.200... got it!'
>
>I guess my logic failure is in that I don't see anything about when the VR
IP
>Addr part of the config statement is referenced, if in fact the way the
whole
>group gets together and decides on who's big man on campus is from hello
>messages with elections being dependent upon Priority specs.
>
>Reading the definition of the next state in the process eludes to the
>understanding that it learns of both the active router's address and the
>virtual router's address from the hello message. Is this a human error on
my
>part in that it appears to be an assumption I'm making??
>
>Since this is a Cisco Protocol, is there an RFC on it that I could reference
>for my clarification needs??
RFC 2281. Informational, not standard track.
>
>Thanks,
>Mark Odette II
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