I fingered it out......I forgot to turn off Spanning tree on the CAT5K
switch that I have connecting the routers....and that I neglected to mention
below......oops.
Cheers,
Lance
>From: "Lance Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Lance Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Puzzling HSRP issue....Comments?
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:49:16 -0800
>
>Group,
>
>Ran across a puzzling HSRP behavior issue today...
>
>I have two 2514s running HSRP on Ethernet 0. When I induce a failure of
>Primary router's (Router A) E0 interface, I can use 'debug standby' to
>determine that HSRP failover takes place as expected, just after the
>holddown expires. The Standby router (Router B) waits three hello
>intervals, then changes it's MAC to the virtual HSRP MAC, becoming Active.
>This works like textbook, what I did not expect came when I restored
>Ethernet 0 on Router A (the one with a higher Standby priority), when this
>is done, Router A changes HSRP state from init to listen for one holddown
>interval, and begins sending hellos. It receives none from Router B,
>although Router B is sending them. Router A then changes state from listen
>to standby, continues to send hellos, then changes state to Active, also
>changing it's MAC to the HSRP virtual MAC. At this point, Router A
>continues sending hellos, recieving none, even though I can verify that
>Router B is sending them. Eventually, Router A recieves a hello from
>Router
>B, indicating a resignation. Good. Router A is now officially the active
>HSRP router and begins forwarding traffic, problem is this process takes
>27-30 seconds, regardless of hellointerval/holddown timers (I tried this
>with the default of 3/10 and then with 1/3 and got the same 30 second delay
>in fail-back).... Oh, by the way, all packets forwarded to the HSRP
>interface bound for their respective destinations get dropped during this
>30second fail-back blackout.....any thoughts?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Lance
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