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Hot Standby Router Protocol – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Hot Standby Router Protocol Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary first-hop redundancy protocol (FHRP) for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway for IP hosts on Ethernet networks. When you use HSRP, you configure the HSRP virtual IP address and virtual MAC address. The HSRP virtual IP address is used as the host’s default…