RE: HSRP and UDP forwarding.

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HSRP and UDP forwarding.

I was told this in another venue: It is the nature of HSRP. Both routers listen to broadcast traffic. Both routers are configured as a DHCP and BOOTP relay agent in order to get redundancy. So all DHCP and BOOTP broadcast traffic is sent twice to the central server. Is there some reason for

Re: HSRP and UDP forwarding.

Look at this way. HSRP (and VRRP) share a virtual IP address among the devices participating. Hosts point their default-gateway to this Virtual IP address. This allows the hosts to still forward traffic when the primary router/switch interface goes down and the standby router/switch changes over