VRRP: Increasing Reliability and Failover with the Virtual Router Redundance Protocol

2.11. Case Studies

So far we defined and clarified VRRP concepts using simple configurations to keep the focus on the understanding of the protocol. Now that we have covered enough ground as an overview, we consider some typical VRRP deployment cases and call attention to some economic, risk-management aspect of the specific configuration. To do that we'll use different portions of the enterprise network we introduced at the beginning of this chapter in Figure 2-1. For the sake of facilitating the discussions, we use some made-up product names (MRM 100, MRM 5000, etc.) to create a context in which we can cover the trade-off considerations within a product line or a product category. With the same motivation, we also attribute some features to ...