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HSRP load balancing works with vlan 1 subnet?

gowdakssujan
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HSRP load balancing works with vlan 1 subnet?

 

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Hi,

 

 

HSRP is not for load balancing, HSRP provides redundancy for a local subnet

HSRP allows to configure two or more routers as standby routers and only a one router as active router at a time.

All the routers in a single HSRP group shares a single MAC address and IP address

which acts a default gateway to the local network.

The Active router is responsible for forwarding the traffic. If it fails, the Standby router takes up all the responsibilities of the active router and forwards the traffic.

 

I attached a link that explains a bit about the protocol and provides examples of how to configure correctly:

https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-documents/hsrp-overview-and-basic-configuration/ta-p/3131590 

 

 

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Hello,

 

what are you after exactly ? HSRP does not really load balance, you can configure different HSRP groups (as outlined in the document linked below). 

 

Explain what you want to know, or what does not work, and if possible, post the zipped Packet Tracer project (.pkt) file...

 

Load-Balancing with HSRP

 

https://flylib.com/books/en/2.286.1/load_balancing_with_hsrp.html

Hello

Do you have addressing on both routers regards those two vlans if so you could provide some sort of traffic distribution  but for proper LB you need to user GLBP no HSRP:

 

Example r1 is the primary for vlan 1 and secondary for vlan 2:
rtr 1

int x/x
ip address 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 1.1.1.254
standby 1 preempt
standby 1 priority 115
int x/x.2
enacapsulation dot1q 2
ip address 2.2.2.1 255.255.255.0
standby 2 ip 2.2.2.2.254
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 priority 95

 

rtr 2

int x/x
ip address 1.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 1.1.1.254
standby 1 preempt
standby 1 priority 95
int x/x.2
enacapsulation dot1q 2
ip address 2.2.2.2 255.255.255.0
standby 2 ip 2.2.2.2.254
standby 2 preempt
standby 2 priority 115


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Paul

pman
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Hi,

 

 

HSRP is not for load balancing, HSRP provides redundancy for a local subnet

HSRP allows to configure two or more routers as standby routers and only a one router as active router at a time.

All the routers in a single HSRP group shares a single MAC address and IP address

which acts a default gateway to the local network.

The Active router is responsible for forwarding the traffic. If it fails, the Standby router takes up all the responsibilities of the active router and forwards the traffic.

 

I attached a link that explains a bit about the protocol and provides examples of how to configure correctly:

https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-documents/hsrp-overview-and-basic-configuration/ta-p/3131590 

 

 

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