Chapter 19 IP Configuration

Figure 161 IP Configuration: VRRP: New

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 123 IP Configuration: VRRP: New

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

Select this option to enable this VRRP interface.

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for identification

 

purposes.

 

 

Network

Select an IP domain to which this VRRP entry applies.

 

 

Virtual Router ID

Select a virtual router number (1 to 7) for which this VRRP entry is created.

 

You can configure up to seven virtual routers for one network.

 

 

Advertisement

Specify the number of seconds between Hello message transmissions. The

Interval

default is 1.

 

 

Preempt Mode

Select this option to activate preempt mode.

 

 

Priority

Enter a number (between 1 and 254) to set the priority level. The bigger the

 

number, the higher the priority.

 

This field is 100 by default.

 

 

Uplink Gateway

Enter the IP address of the uplink gateway in dotted decimal notation.

 

The switch checks the link to the uplink gateway.

 

 

Primary Virtual IP

Enter the IP address of the primary virtual router in dotted decimal notation.

 

 

Secondary Virtual IP

This field is optional. Enter the IP address of a secondary virtual router in

 

dotted decimal notation. This field is ignored when you enter 0.0.0.0.

 

 

OK

Click OK to apply the changes and close this screen.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to discard all changes and close this screen.

 

 

 

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