Cisco HSRP and Procurve VRRP

[Jeff Carrell]

ywlow asked: "Another puzzle, while we're here: in your opinion, why is not possible to telnet the virtual ip but only the ip of the physic interface?"

Can't say, I've not tried to do that before, but probably why the special feature of pinging the VIP was added (which is not part of the VRRP spec and clearly stated as such in the docs).

Best practice, configure a loopback interface, that way there is always a known IP up and available on the switch, regardless of which interfaces are the active routed or not.

I generally configure the loopback interface and the router-id (OSPF) to be the same.

hth...Jeff