I did the Nokia and Firewall-1 upgrade couple months ago.  And yes, if you
"want" to use the Simplified VRRP, you should only have one VRID for all
the interfaces of the Nokia appliances involved.  If you don't, you will
keep getting "warning" messages about the different VRID on different
interfaces.  I didn't try, but probably the failover would not work in that
configuration.

I quote 'want' above because you can keep using the legacy VRRP and the
multiple VRID setup.  However, I can tell you using simplified VRRP is a
lot cleaner, and it makes sense.

Under the simplified VRRP, the only situation you would use a different
VRID is that you would have another "different" monitoring group in the
same subnet segment.  Otherwise, you only need one VRID for your existing
monitoring group.

(a bit off topic...)
Indeed, this simplified VRRP practice is aligned to what you would do under
Cisco 's  HSRP configuration.  Since Cisco fixed a bug in their HSRP
implementation, you could only have up to 16 (or 256 on some high end
models) HSRP group ID, because all routers in the same monitoring group
should use the same group ID on all interfaces.


Cheers,
Raymond N.

At 10:07 PM 5/25/05 -0400, you wrote:
>We currently define a VRID for each physical interface on our Nokia
appliance.  This is true if there is only one network connected to the
interface or if there are many VLANs connected.  We are in the process of
upgrading to IPSO 3.8.1
>
>page 285 of IPSO 3.8.1 Voyager Reference Guide states:
>Note:
>All configured backup addresses must be associated with the same VRID. If
you do not associate all backup addresses with the same VRID when you
configure monitored circuit mode using simplified configuration, monitoring
of VRRP network interfaces is not enabled.
>
>Does this mean you can only have 1 VRID or can we continue to have one for
each physical interface.  The Reference Guide continues with references of
choosing the particular VRID for options and changes etc. which contradicts
the Note above.  I originally interpreted the note to be in reference to a
HA solution where the master, and all backup appliances  must use the same
VRID for a particular backup address.  I just thought I'd run it past this
mail list to be sure before we upgrade.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Ken
>
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