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<title abbrev='VRRP'>Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol</title>
<author initials='S.' surname='Knight' fullname='S. Knight'>
<organization>Ascend Communications, Inc.</organization></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Weaver' fullname='D. Weaver'>
<organization>Ascend Communications, Inc.</organization></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Whipple' fullname='D. Whipple'>
<organization>Microsoft, Inc.</organization></author>
<author initials='R.' surname='Hinden' fullname='R. Hinden'>
<organization>Nokia</organization></author>
<author initials='D.' surname='Mitzel' fullname='D. Mitzel'>
<organization>Nokia</organization></author>
<author initials='P.' surname='Hunt' fullname='P. Hunt'>
<organization>Nokia</organization></author>
<author initials='P.' surname='Higginson' fullname='P. Higginson'>
<organization>Digital Equipment Corp.</organization></author>
<author initials='M.' surname='Shand' fullname='M. Shand'>
<organization>Digital Equipment Corp.</organization></author>
<author initials='A.' surname='Lindem' fullname='A. Lindem'>
<organization>IBM Corporation</organization></author>
<date month='April' year='1998' />
<area>Routing</area>
<keyword>router</keyword>
<keyword>VRRP</keyword>
<keyword>routing</keyword>
<abstract>
<t>
   This memo defines the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP).

   VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns

   responsibility for a virtual router to one of the VRRP routers on a

   LAN.  The VRRP router controlling the IP address(es) associated with

   a virtual router is called the Master, and forwards packets sent to

   these IP addresses.  The election process provides dynamic fail over

   in the forwarding responsibility should the Master become

   unavailable.  This allows any of the virtual router IP addresses on

   the LAN to be used as the default first hop router by end-hosts.  The

   advantage gained from using VRRP is a higher availability default

   path without requiring configuration of dynamic routing or router

   discovery protocols on every end-host.
</t></abstract></front>

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