Two different masters on same VRRP vlan

[Zontar]

Hi all,

first of all, I wish to apologize for my english. It will probably not be so good.

i've created a new VLAN on both my backbone switches (HP Procurve 5406zl rom version  K.15.16.0008)

For the newly created vlans, VRRP does not seem to work. The ones that were allready there, work just fine.

I've tried to copy them, but that gave the same result.

I came accros some articles on the internet, showing how to configure vrrp. In the article they were mentioning the owner command and the backup command. I tried that, but keep getting the same error when i trie that.

IBN-UAB-02(vlan-7-vrid-7)# backup
Invalid input: backup
IBN-UAB-02(vlan-7-vrid-7)# owner
Invalid input: owner

I allso tried to force both switches in the desired role by setting the priority. But that did'nt help either.

When i type: show vrrp vlan 7 i see that State is Master on both switches.

When i type the show vrrp config brief command, it shows that one switch is master and the other switch is backup.

Could someone please explain this behavior, or what i am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Roy

[EricAtHP]

The switches need to be able to communicate with eachother on the VLAN that VRRP is providing redundancy for. If you are just configuring and haven't connected anything yet, then that is what i would expect.

[Zontar · Accepted solution]

Hi Erik,

First of all, thank you for your reaction.

I dod'nt mention it in my first post, but the switches are connected.

When you say the switches need to be able to communicate, do you mean directly over the specific VLAN, or wil connection over other switches do the same?

Regards,

Roy

[Zontar]

Hi Erik,

Your post seemed like a simple solution.

And it whas a simple solution indeed!

After i tagged the trunk in the vlan that connected both switches directly, it worked!

Again, thanks for your post!

Kind regards,

Roy

[EricAtHP]

Hi Roy,

Good to hear you have it working. Use caution though as if both switches are communicating over a direct tagged link and through an intermediate switch on the same vlan, you could create a loop.

It is definitely ok to have both VRRP routers communicate with eachother over the VRRP VLAN through an intermediate switch.

[Anonymous]

Hello ,

Please refer this article 

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=4174722&docId=emr_na-c03435391&docLocale=en_US