[155652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HSRP vs VRRP for IPv6 on IOS-XE - rekindling an old flame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Aug 20 16:34:35 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120820.221044.74714840.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:31:42 -0700
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
VRRP is to HSRP what 802.1q is to ISL...
I highly recommend using VRRP instead of HSRP because:
1. It is a more robust protocol
2. It is vendor agnostic
3. Being vendor agnostic it is more likely to have a continuing future.
Does anyone still use ISL?
Owen
On Aug 20, 2012, at 13:10 , sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>> Yeah I see the disconnect. I'm assuming that what I see is what I get.
>> Which means I'm going to stick with HSRP. If our AS team gives me any
>> good feedback that I can share I will do so. Thanks Nick.
>>
>> XE: v4: HSRPv1, HSRPv2, VRRP v6: HSRPv2
>
> Not particularly relevant to the original question - however, I'd like
> to mention that we've been using IPv6 VRRP on our Juniper routers for
> well over a year. No particular problems so far.
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
