
Router Redundancy Overview
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With a divisor value of 10, and a retries value of 4, the router takes 2 seconds to
detect 4 missed BOFLs and initiate a role change. The entire role change
procedure takes about 3 seconds.
You may want to set the retries to a value higher than 4 depending on the nature of
your network. If your network typically carries traffic in bursts, setting the retries
value to 4 could trigger frequent, unnecessary role-switching.
Refer to Appendix D for parameter descriptions and instructions for using Site
Manager to edit these parameters.
Resource Availability
A router is functioning normally if it can reach the resources -- servers, printers,
and other devices -- with which you configure it to communicate. If a primary
router in a redundancy group cannot reach its resources, it changes out of the
primary role. Resources are determined by IP address, so all resources must be
running TCP/IP.
Bay Networks redundancy software includes several parameters that allow you to
control how often and how many times a router attempts to ping its resources
(refer to Chapter 5).
Requirements
Router redundancy has the following requirements:
• Router redundancy is a Bay Networks proprietary protocol. All routers
running router redundancy must be Bay Networks routers.
• Interfaces that you configure for router redundancy must be on networks with
no other routers that require route advertisements on that segment of the
network.
• All members of a router redundancy group must have exactly the same
configuration for all redundant interfaces except for Member ID, Priority, and
Resources.
• A router can be a member of only one router redundancy group.
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