Architecture II (FHRP's, SD-Access, SD-WAN) Flashcards
FHRP
First Hop Redundancy Protocol
Where does the Layer 3 boundary take place while using an FHRP protocol?
Access Layer - Access Layer Switches can use a directly connected layer 3 switch as the default gateway. The connected layer 3 switch can use dynamic routing protocols to provide redundancy and load sharing.
FHRP and Access layer Switching (as opposed to routing)
Access Layer Switches must therefore use a default gateway that is NOT directly connected. If access to the default gateway is disrupted, the layer 2 (access-layer-switches) will not have connectivity outside of their own VLAN.
What do FHRP’s provide?
FHRPs provide a mechanism for Layer 3 gateway redundancy and load sharing for access layer devices.
What are the three FHRPs?
HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol), VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) and GLBP (Gateway Load Balancing Protocol)
Which protocols are Cisco-proprietary?
GLBP and HSRP
HSRP - facts and figures
HSRP gateways share a virtual MAC and virtual IP address - each group contains one active router and one standby router. Only the active router responds to ARP requests and forwards traffic.
What are the group numbers and priority numbers for HSRP? Hello and Hold Timer
Priority (0-255 highest priority wins), 0-4095 for group numbers. Hello Timer - 3 seconds, Hold Timer - 10 seconds
What is the preempt command?
If the active router goes down and you have configured the preempt command, when the router comes back online, it will assume the active role due to the fact of having being configured with the preempt command.
Multicast IP for HSRP v1 and v2
224.0.0.2 for v1, 224.0.0.102 for v2.
What are the virtual MAC addresses for HSRP v1 and v2
0000.0c07.acxx v1, 0000.0c9f.fxxx
VRRP - Cisco or Industry Standard?
Industry Standard.
Facts and figures for VRRP
Master and Backup instead of active and standby. Priority 1-254, groups (only 256). It allows us to share the physical IP address of the master router, you can save an IP address (internet edge may be a beneficial space, fewer IP addresses /29)
- Master router has a physical IP, physical and virtual MAC. When the master goes down, the backup will inherit the .1 from the master and the virtual MAC as well.
What is the virtual MAC of VRRP?
0000.5e00.01xx
Differences between HSRP and VRRP
In VRRP, preempt is enabled by default. Authentication is the same (open and md5), Multicast address is 224.0.0.18 for VRRP. v2 =IPv4 and v3=IPv6
GLBP
Global Load Balancing Protocol
What is the makeup of GLBP?
1 Active Virtual Gateway (AVG), Active Virtual Forwarder (AVF). Imagine you have four routers, the AVG assigns or pushes vMAC to each router. If a client (PC) sends an ARP request to the network, the AVG will send the ARP response which will contain a vMAC (1-4). It will use a different load balancing option for each client (PC).
What are some Load Balancing Options for GLBP?
Weighted - if we take the same example, four routers, the middle two routers have different upstream circuits and can support 100 MB. The outside routers upstream circuits only support 10 MB. We can push twice as much traffic to routers in the middle.
- Host Dependent: Client macaddress, in this option, the client will always get the same virtual mac address.
-RR
What is the multicast and vMAC for GLBP?
MCAST: 224.0.0.102, vMAC: 0007.B40x.xxyy