Overview Of Vrrp - ZyXEL Communications ZyXEL ES-4024A Support Notes

ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes
Fault Free Protection

Overview of VRRP

Traditional network has one and only one gateway to put between internal
network and external network. When the link of router has some trouble, the
user can't access to internet anymore. But when we enable VRRP,.if MASTER
router fails, and the BACKUP router will take over, and ensure the traffic still go
through.
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Master Backup
With VRRP
Without VRRP
VRRP (Virtual Redundancy Routing Protocol) provides a fail-over solution to
increase network high availability and prevent single point of failure. Basically,
VRRP utilizes two or more switches to work together. The master switch
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