FHRP Load Balancing Behavior


vPC and [HSRP](/hot-standby-router-protocol-hsrp) do two different things.

[vPC](/nexus-what-is-vpc) allows you to interconnect two [Nexus](/nexus) switches making them appear as a single logical node to other devices.  vPC scales up the size of the Layer 2 network.

HSRP is a gateway redundancy protocol, meaning it operates on Layer 3.

HSRP and vPC do work well together on Nexus devices.  When configured together, you have the following advantages:

- HSRP operates in an active/active arrangement.  That means that both devices forward traffic (unlike HSRP on an IOS device).  They actually perform gateway load balancing much like GLBP on IOS.
- vPC will help "tune" HSRP so that is why Cisco recommends configuring HSRP with the default settings when using vPC. In a regular HSRP configuration, you as the administrator will tune the timers to enable fast failover. When used with vPC, it is vPC that will handle the failover

## Links

https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccie-enterprise-infrastructure/glbp-gateway-load-balancing-protocol

https://networklessons.com/cisco/ccie-enterprise-infrastructure/hsrp-hot-standby-routing-protocol

Nexus - using vPC with HSRP

NTP poll interval

NTP server and client and the master command

NTP troubleshooting and debugging tools

NTP versions 3 and 4

Native VLAN Traffic Flow on Trunk Ports

Native VLAN

Native VLANs and untagged frames

NetFlow - Flexible NetFlow

NetFlow - Flow Samplers

NetFlow - applying to an SVI

NetFlow - what is a flow

NetFlow local cache size

NetFlow

Network - BUM Traffic

Network - Discontiguous or Discontinuous

Network - Discontiguous

Network - Example of communication, encapsulation, and decapsulation, between hosts

Network - Layer 3 network

Network - Monitoring multiple IPs of a single device with Observium

Network - Observium vs LibreNMS

Network - Simultaneous network traffic handling

Network - Transient traffic

Network - Two Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP)

Network - control plane

Network - data plane

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Network Collisions

Network Design - Choosing a technology for multiple datacenter topology

Network Design - Load Balancing vs Load Sharing

Network Design - Spine and leaf architecture

Network Design - Switch oversubscription ratios

Network Design - Traffic Engineering

Network Design - on-premises and off-premises

Network Design Achieving Redundancy with PE Devices

Network Design Considerations Involving PE and P Routers

Network Flapping

Network Management Areas

Network Speed, Bandwidth, and Throughput

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Network design - confine VLANs to as few access switches as possible

Network planes

Networking - Understanding Chassis devices

Networking - what is a socket

Networks - Overlay Network

Networks - Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)

Networks - Spanning Layer 2 networks across remote sites

Networks - Underlay Network

Next Generation Multicast Virtual Private Network (NG-MVPN)

Next Hop

Nexus - what is vPC

Nexus lacp rate fast

Nexus

OSI Model

OSPF - A comparison with IS-IS

OSPF - ABR has at least one interface in Area 0

OSPF - ASBR E-bit in an LSA

OSPF - Adjacencies in a Multi-Access network segment

OSPF - Adjacency Between NBMA and P2MP Non-Broadcast Networks

OSPF - Advertising point to multipoint networks

OSPF - Area Border Router (ABR)

OSPF - Autonomous System Boundary Router (ASBR)

OSPF - BDR is elected before DR

OSPF - Cost of summarized routes

OSPF - DR-BDR election per broadcast domain

OSPF - DR-BDR election priority of zero

OSPF - Database Example

OSPF - Default route advertisement next hop IP

OSPF - Down (DN) Bit

OSPF - ECMP across two different areas

OSPF - ECMP to destination in Area 0

OSPF - Enabling authentication

OSPF - HMAC-SHA Extended Authentication

OSPF - Identifying the router type

OSPF - LSA Max Age

OSPF - LSA Refresh Time

OSPF - LSA checksum

OSPF - Link ID and ADV Router in the OSPF database

OSPF - Link ID in the OSPF database

OSPF - Link State Updates (LSUs)

OSPF - MPLS SuperBackbone

OSPF - NBMA neighbors listen on 224.0.0.5

OSPF - NSSA P-bit

OSPF - NSSA no automatic default route

OSPF - Neighbor states

OSPF - Neighbor vs Adjacency

OSPF - OSPFv3 authentication

OSPF - Propagation of routes between areas

OSPF - Stuck in ATTEMPT neighbor state

OSPF - Stuck in ExStart or Exchange states

OSPF - Type 1 LSA

OSPF - Type 5 LSA filtering on an ASBR

OSPF - Update pacing timers

OSPF - capablity vrf-lite

OSPF - control plane vs data plane loops

OSPF - default-information originate always command

OSPF - distance command

OSPF - distribute-list filtering

OSPF - manual neighbor configuration

OSPF - non-zero Forwarding Address example

Nexus - using vPC with HSRP

Links

Links to this page: