Re: Proposal for Maintenance Event for VRRP [RFC-5798]

Hi Sreenatha

If you mean "if I am not wrong" then yes what you have said below is correct.

Also I believe the objective (particularly in case of time sensitive application) is to avoid any unnecessary switch overs; as already suggested earlier let's call this a "Change Event" instead of "Maintenance Event". The "Change Event" would be triggered by change in one of the following parameters of the VRRP Packet :

1) Priority (Section 5.2.4. of RFC-5798)
2) Max Adver Int (Section 5.2.7. of RFC-5798)

And possibly:

3) IPvX Address(es) (Section 5.2.9.  of RFC-5798)

The "Change Event" would only be handled in Master State and ignored in other state as the VRRP Packets are only supposed to be sent by the Master.

So to rephrase the proposal:

    - If a Change event is received, then:

    + Send an ADVERTISEMENT

    + Reset the Adver_Timer to Advertisement_Interval

    -endif // Change recv

To cover the failover scenario (in the absence of preemption) Priority = 0 will now have to be allowed along with the previously discussed modifications to avoid a storm of Priority = 0 Advertisements from two masters.  

Please Share your thoughts.

Thanks
-Anurag

-----Original Message-----
From: sreenatha [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:17 AM
To: Anurag Kothari (ankothar)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Proposal for Maintenance Event for VRRP [RFC-5798]

Hi Anurag,
     Thanks for clarification.

      If i am wrong, user is allowed to configure Priority value as zero(i.e., Maintenance_Event), priority value will be changed. And handling of the Maintenance_Event is done only in Master state and ignored in Backup and Init state.

Thanks,
Sreenatha

On 03/01/2013 08:31 PM, Anurag Kothari (ankothar) wrote:
> Hi Sreenatha
>
> I don't think we need to define a "Maintenance_Event" when the router is in either Init or Backup State. The intention of the "Maintenance_Event" is to trigger a failover from "Master" to a "Backup" router as soon as possible (especially when preemption is not configured).
>
> But if you are asking if priority = 0 should be allowed (either by user configuration or dynamically) when the router is in "Init" or "Backup" state then I think the answer should be yes, It should be treated just like any other change in priority is treated when the router is in these states.
>
> Please let me know if I am missing something.
>
> Thanks
> -Anurag
>
>

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