I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-05.txt

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	Title		: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
	Author(s)	: P. Higginson, B. Hinden, S. Knight, A. Lindem, 
                          D. Mitzel, M. Shand, D. Whipple, D. Weaver, P. Hunt
	Filename	: draft-ietf-vrrp-spec-05.txt
	Pages		: 30
	Date		: 03-Feb-98
	
   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.

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