Routing Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
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9. (Optional) For Password, typea password that will be used to authenticate this VRRP router
with VRRPpeers. If the password length exceeds8 characters, it will be truncated to 8
characters.
10. Configure the virtual IPaddressesassociated with this VRRPinstance:
a. Click to expand Virtual IP addresses.
b. Click to add a virtual IPaddress.
c. For Virtual IP, type the IPv4 or IPv6 address for a virtual IPof this VRRPinstance.
d. (Optional) Repeat to add additional virtual IPs.
11. See Configure VRRP+ for information about configuring VRRP+.
12. Click Apply to save the configuration and apply the change.
Command line
1. Select the device in Remote Manager and click Actions> Open Console, or log into the IX20
local command line as a user with full Admin access rights.
Depending on your device configuration, you may be presented with an Access selection
menu. Type admin to accessthe Admin CLI.
2. At the command line, type config to enter configuration mode:
> config
(config)>
3. Add a VRRPinstance. For example:
(config)> add network vrrp VRRP_test
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)>
4. Enable the VRRPinstance:
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)> enable true
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)>
5. Set the interface on which this VRRP instance should run:
a. Use the ?to determine available interfaces:
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)> interface ?
Interface: The network interface to communicate with VRRP peers on and
listen for traffic to virtual IP addresses.
Format:
/network/interface/defaultip
/network/interface/defaultlinklocal
/network/interface/eth1
/network/interface/eth2
/network/interface/loopback