hsrp and secondary IP

Hi,

Can anyone explain to me the difference between HSRP and secondary IPs. Given the config below, will it function like hsrp?

int f0/0
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.0 secondary

Thanks in advance.

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ColbyG

HSRP is redundancy between two devices. All you have there is two IPs on the same subnet, which doesn't accomplish anything. If the device is down, so are both IPs. Secondary IP addresses are used to have more than one subnet on a broadcast domain, which is needed sometimes.

If you were using HSRP here you would have two devices answering to a single IP, instead of one device answering to two IPs. If one of the devices in an HSRP group goes down, the standby device starts replying to the shared IP.

marcusaureliusbrutus

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. If i am going to implement the secondary IP scheme with hsrp, is the below format correct?

R1
int f0/0
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 10.1.1.2
standby 1 priority 120
standby 1 preempt
ip address 10.1.2.1 255.255.255.0 secondary
standby 2 ip 10.1.2.2
standby 2 priority 110
standby 2 preempt

R2
int f0/0
ip address 10.1.1.3 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 10.1.1.2
standby 1 priority 110
standby 1 preempt
ip address 10.1.2.3 255.255.255.0
standby 2 ip 10.1.2.2
standby 2 priority 120
standby 2 preempt

So if R1 fails for example, R2 will be active for subnets 10.1.1.0 and 10.1.2.0.

The thing is, i have two 3800 routers. Each router is connected to 2 different ISPs. If i wish to have redundancy and load balancing, is bgp and hsrp the way to go and do away with the secondary IP option altogether?

Thanks again.

Cyanic

I don't know your network configuration, but it looks like you will have 2 subnets on the same vlan/broadcast domain. Are you sure you want to split the subnets on secondarys instead of sub interfaces?

marcusaureliusbrutus

Hi,

Yah, i think subinterfaces would be a better way to go. So is the below config correct?

R1
int f0/0.1
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 10.1.1.3
standby 1 priority 120
standby 1 preempt

int f0/0.2
ip address 10.1.2.1 255.255.255.0
standby 2 ip 10.1.2.3
standby 2 priority 110
standby 2 preempt

R2
int f0/0.1
ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
standby 1 ip 10.1.1.3
standby 1 priority 110
standby preempt

int f0/0.2
ip address 10.1.2.2 255.255.255.0
standby 2 ip 10.1.2.3
standby 2 priority 120
standby 2 preempt

And should i go with this redundancy option, will bgp only advertise the active hsrp group?

Thanks.