HSRP Problem

[sunilyk]

Hi All,

We have 2 2600 routers.

One router has FE IP x.y.z.252 and the other router FE is x.y.z.253.

When I try to put the first command for hsrp i.e

standby 1 ip x.y.z.254, then following error it shows.

"address cannot equal interface IP address"

Will anybody please let me know why this error it is showing ? and any solution to this ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Sunil

[miguelangel-fernandez]

First, try to revise the IOS SOFTWARE, perhaps this IOS not permit configuring HSRP.

If the IOS permit to configure HSRP try:

Interface Fastethernet X/X

no ip redirects

Standby 1 preemt

before to configure the standby ip XXXX.XXXX.XXXX.XXXX

Regards

[sunilyk]

Hi,

The IOS is 12.3(3) on both the routers.

standby command works well on the other router.

But the one in consideration does give the error.

I tried to put no ip redirects and then stanby 1 preempt firstly, but still it did not work.

One more thing .254 is nowhere used.

Thanks and Regards,

Sunil

[Richard Burts]

That error message indicates that the router thinks that the address has been used somewhere. Can you post the configuration commands on all of the interfaces of the router.

[BDYREK]

what is your subnet? It's not 255.255.255.252 right?

[sunilyk]

Hi,

The subnet mask is 255.255.255.0

Regards,

Sunil

[f-bress]

Can You ping the x.y.z.254 ?

What is the result when You enter "show ip route x.y.z.254" ?