3 routers in HSRP

[grapevine]

If there are three routers in a HSRP group, one will be active , other will be standby, what will be the state of the third - will it be also in Standby or in Speak

[paul driver]

Hello

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@grapevine wrote:

If there are three routers in a HSRP group, one will be active , other will be standby, what will be the state of the third - will it be also in Standby or in Speak

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It will be in a listening state.

[Spooster IT Services]

Hi ranjipremandrewp , 

For one HSRP group only one device can be in ACTIVE state and only one device will be in Standby state , Rest all devices will stay in Listening state . If any device in Active or Standby state fails , in that case the devices in listening state will change their state to Active or standby depending upon the device that went down . 

[Richard Burts]

This is a nice elaboration explaining the logic of the correct response from Paul. So +5

[MHM Cisco World]

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/hot-standby-router-protocol-hsrp/10583-62.html

Listen status 
""The router knows the virtual IP address, but the router is neither the active router nor the standby router. It listens for hello messages from those routers.""