ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL 1000 User Manual

Chapter 6 Tutorials

ZyWALL USG 1000 User’s Guide

This example is going to show you how to set up device HA as illustrated below.

Figure 66   Device HA Example

In this example, router A is the default gateway for the network and uses IP address 
192.168.1.1. This is the default gateway IP address for the network. There are two ZyWALL 
routers to ensure this gateway is available. Router A is the master; router B is the backup. 
Router B has a management IP address of 192.168.1.101.
The ZyWALL has its default settings. Configure the master first because you can synchronize 
the backup with the master later.

You can use a fully-qualified domain name, instead of an IP address, for the virtual router. If 
you want to do this, you should set up DNS before you configure the VRRP groups and 
synchronization. In this example, you are going to use the IP address.

You have to set up one VRRP group for each interface with a static IP address on which you 
want to set up device HA. In this example, create two VRRP groups, one for ge1 and one for 
ge4.

1 Click Device HA > VRRP Group, and then click the Add icon.
2 Give the VRRP group a name and virtual router ID, and select the interface ge1. This is 

the master router, and you are not going to use authentication. Click OK.