VRRP - Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

Before Looking into VRRP, I recommend you to look into Introduction to HSRP

VRRP is one of the FHRP (First Hop Redundancy Protocols) Protocols
This Protocol deals with gateway redundancy.
VRRP is IEEE standard, whereas HSRP is Cisco proprietary.

  • The Router with highest Priority becomes the MASTER
  • All other Router becomes the BACKUP.
  • The virtual MAC address is the reserved 0000.5e00.01xx, with xx representing the hexadecimal group number.
  • Hello packets are sent every 1 second, by default, and sent to multicast address 224.0.0.18
  • VRRP preempt will be enabled by default

Configuration :
        (config)# interface fastEthernet 0/0
        (config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
        (config-if)#vrrp 1 priority 150
        (config-if)#vrrp 1 ip 192.168.1.254

Difference between HSRP and VRRP:

HSRP
VRRP
Protocol
Cisco proprietary
Standard protocol
Packet Forwarding States
1 Active, 1 Standby and others are in Listening States
1 master and Others are in Backup States
Virtual IP Address
Must have to be different from the Interface IP configured
Can also be the same as Interface IP.
Multicast IP
224.0.0.2(Version 1)  / 224.0.0.102(Version 2)
224.0.0.18
Timers
Hello timers - 3sec / Hold timer - 10 sec
Hello timers - 1sec / Hold timer - 3 sec
Mac Address
0000.0c07.acXX (Version 1) / 0000.0c9f.fxxx (Version 2)
0000.5e00.01xx
Tracking
Interface and Object
Object

You can also look at my video Tutorial:
 

That's it.

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