DELL S50V User Manual

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) | 1135

Setting a Virtual Router priority to 255 ensures that router is the “owner” virtual router for the VRRP 
group. VRRP elects the MASTER router by choosing the router with the highest priority. The default 
priority for a Virtual Router is 100. The higher the number, the higher the priority. If the MASTER router 
fails, VRRP begins the election process to choose a new MASTER router based on the next-highest 
priority. 

If two routers in a VRRP group come up at the same time and have the same priority value, the interface’s 
physical IP addresses are used as tie-breakers to decide which is MASTER. The router with the higher IP 
address will become MASTER.

Configure the VRRP Group’s priority with the following command in the VRRP mode:

Configure the priority for the VRRP 
group.

INTERFACE -VRID

 

Range: 1-255
Default: 100

FTOS(conf-if-gi-1/2)#vrrp-group 111

FTOS(conf-if-gi-1/2-vrid-111)#priority 125

FTOS#show vrrp

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GigabitEthernet 1/1, VRID: 111, Net: 10.10.10.1

State: Master, 

Priority: 255

, Master: 10.10.10.1 (local)

Hold Down: 0 sec, Preempt: TRUE, AdvInt: 1 sec

Adv rcvd: 0, Bad pkts rcvd: 0, Adv sent: 2343, Gratuitous ARP sent: 5

Virtual MAC address:

 00:00:5e:00:01:6f

Virtual IP address:

 10.10.10.1 10.10.10.2 10.10.10.3 10.10.10.10

Authentication: (none)

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GigabitEthernet 1/2, VRID: 111, Net: 10.10.2.1

State: Master, 

Priority: 125

, Master: 10.10.2.1 (local)

Hold Down: 0 sec, Preempt: TRUE, AdvInt: 1 sec

Adv rcvd: 0, Bad pkts rcvd: 0, Adv sent: 601, Gratuitous ARP sent: 2

Virtual MAC address:

 00:00:5e:00:01:6f

Virtual IP address:

 10.10.2.2 10.10.2.3

Authentication: (none)

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