I see. So, thinking back, the VRRP creates a kind of virtual router,
which will be the gateway for the LAN (ideally), and which both physical
routers will use for their transport out, and the public IP info will go
on the virtual router, rather than on either physical router?
On 2011-04-28 3:16 PM, Butch Evans wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:24 -0400, Jacob Heider wrote:
So, the backup is only accessible at its internal, real IP while in
backup-mode? So, it wouldn't, for example, have internet access for
itself?
Yes and no. With VRRP, there are 2 "parts" to the configuration. These
routers have to have layer3 communication between them on the ports that
are doing VRRP. Because of this, you will have a "static" configuration
that includes things like IP addresses and routes. You also have the
"VRRP configuration", which includes the IP addresses and scripts to set
up the router depending on whether it is master or slave and currently
active or not. You will typically be managing the router on it's
"static" configuration IP, which is NOT duplicated on the failover
router.
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