Routing
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
IX14 User Guide
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Command line
1. Log into the IX14 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 access the Admin CLI.
2. At the command line, type
config
to enter configuration mode:
> config
(config)>
3. Add a VRRP instance. For example:
(config)> add network vrrp VRRP_test
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)>
4. Enable the VRRP instance:
(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/lan
/network/interface/loopback
/network/interface/modem
Current value:
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)> interface
b. Set the interface, for example:
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)> interface /network/interface/LAN
(config network vrrp VRRP_test)>
c. Repeat for additional interfaces.
6. Set the router ID. The Router ID must be the same on all VRRP devices that participate in the
same VRRP device pool. Allowed values are from
1
and
255
, and it is configured to
50
by
default.