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Configuring the Advertisement Interval for the VRRP Primary Router

By default, the primary router sends VRRP advertisement packets every second to all members of the VRRP group. These packets indicate that the primary router is still operational. If the primary router fails or becomes unreachable, the backup router with the highest priority value becomes the new primary router.

You can modify the advertisement interval in seconds or in milliseconds. The interval must be the same for all routing platforms in the VRRP group.

For VRRP for IPv6, you must configure IPv6 router advertisements for the interface on which VRRP is configured to send IPv6 router advertisements for the VRRP group. To do so, include the interface interface-name statement at the [edit protocols router-advertisement] hierarchy level. (For information about this statement and guidelines, see the Junos OS Routing Protocols Library for Routing Devices.) When an interface receives an IPv6 router solicitation message, it sends an IPv6 router advertisement to all VRRP groups configured on it. In the case of logical systems, IPv6 router advertisements are not sent to VRRP groups.

Note:

The primary VRRP for an IPv6 router must respond to a router solicitation message with the virtual IP address of the router. However, when the interface interface-name statement is included at the [edit protocols router-advertisement] hierarchy level, the backup VRRP for an IPv6 router might send a response before the VRRP primary responds, so that the default route of the client is not set to the primary VRRP router’s virtual IP address. To avoid this situation, include the virtual-router-only statement at the [edit protocols router-advertisement interface interface-name] hierarchy level. When this statement is included, router advertisements are sent only for VRRP IPv6 groups configured on the interface (if the groups are in the primary state). You must include this statement on both the primary and backup VRRP for IPv6 routers.

Note:

In an EVPN network, including the virtual-router-only statement at the [edit protocols router-advertisement interface interface-name] hierarchy level restricts the router advertisements to be sent only for the link local virtual-gateway-address.

This topic contains the following sections:

Modifying the Advertisement Interval in Seconds

To modify the time, in seconds, between the sending of VRRP advertisement packets, include the advertise-interval statement:

The interval can be from 1 through 255 seconds.

You can include this statement at the following hierarchy levels:

  • [edit interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family inet address address vrrp-group group-id]

  • [edit logical-systems logical-system-name interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family inet address address vrrp-group group-id]

Note:

When VRRPv3 is enabled, the advertise-interval statement cannot be used to configure advertisement intervals. Instead, use the fast-interval statement to configure advertisement intervals.

Modifying the Advertisement Interval in Milliseconds

To modify the time, in milliseconds, between the sending of VRRP advertisement packets, include the fast-interval statement:

The interval can be from 10 through 40,950 milliseconds.

You can include this statement at the following hierarchy levels:

  • [edit interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family (inet | inet6) address address (vrrp-group | vrrp-inet6-group) group-id]

  • [edit logical-systems logical-system-name interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family (inet | inet6) address address (vrrp-group | vrrp-inet6-group) group-id]

Note:

In the VRRP PDU, Junos OS sets the advertisement interval to 0. When you configure VRRP with other vendors’ routers, the fast-interval statement works correctly only when the other routers also have an advertisement interval set to 0 in the VRRP PDUs. Otherwise, Junos OS interprets other routers’ settings as advertisement timer errors.

To modify the time, in milliseconds, between the sending of VRRP for IPv6 advertisement packets, include the inet6-advertise-interval statement:

The range of values is from 100 through 40,000 milliseconds (ms).

You can include this statement at the following hierarchy levels:

  • [edit interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family inet6 address address vrrp-inet6-group group-id]

  • [edit logical-systems logical-system-name interfaces interface-name unit logical-unit-number family inet6 address address vrrp-inet6-group group-id]

Note:

When VRRPv3 is enabled, the inet6-advertise-interval statement cannot be used to configure advertisement intervals. Instead, use the fast-interval statement to configure advertisement intervals.

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