Thanks for your response, John. I believe you have pretty much answered my question when you said that the service provider would configure VRRP on their end as well. That was the piece that I wasn't sure about. But just in case, let me provide a little more detail and answer your questions.
First off, it's a very small, but fairly critical network environment. The only router that we have in operation is the one router that is connected to the service provider network (this is the reason for my confusion on how VRRP will work). We have a few different VLANs and the one router is performing inter-VLAN routing, so there is no routing protocol in use on our side. We currently only have a single Internet connection (we are planning to add a redundant connection with a second service provider in the near future). However, I have a spare router that's just sitting in the rack. If the primary router goes down, I can just move the cables over to the backup router. However, instead of just having the backup router sitting there doing nothing, I want to configure VRRP to provide redundancy (without having to manually move the cables from one device to the other, like I currently would have to do). This way, if the primary router ever fails overnight, the network won't go down. Operations are 24/7, but IT staff (myself and one other person) works normal business hours. So, we are on call outside of normal business hours, but if the primary router goes down at 3am, the network is down until one of us comes in and moves the cables over to the backup router. I want to avoid this and have the switch-over to the backup router be automatic.
Thanks,
Bryan
