accept-mode

Enables a backup Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) device to respond to ping, traceroute, and Telnet packets if the backup device becomes the master VRRP device.
Syntax
accept-mode
no accept-mode
Command Default

A VRRP nonowner master router does not respond to any packet that is destined for the virtual IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Modes

VRID interface configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

A VRRP nonowner master router does not respond to any packet that is destined for the virtual IPv4 or IPv6 address. This prevents troubleshooting network connections to this router using ping, traceroute, or Telnet. To resolve this, you can use this command to enable the router to respond to ping, traceroute, and Telnet packets destined for the virtual IPv4 or IPv6 address of a VRRP cluster. The router drops all other packets destined for the virtual IPv4 or IPv6 address of the VRRP session.

Note: The accept-mode command enables the device to respond to ping, traceroute, and Telnet packets, but the device does not respond to SSH packets. When the device acting as the master router is not the IP address owner (the router with the interface whose actual IP address is used as the virtual router’s IP address), the master router accepts only the ARP packets sent to the virtual IP address. When accept mode is configured, the master router responds to ping, TELNET, and traceroute packets sent to the virtual IP address even when the master router is not the IP address owner.

The no form of the command causes the nonowner master router to not respond to any packet that is destined for the virtual IPv4 or IPv6 address of the VRRP session.

Examples

The following example shows the configuration of accept mode on an IPv6 VRRP backup router.

device# configure terminal 
device(config)# interface ve 3
device(config-vif-3)# ipv6 vrrp vrid 2
device(config-vif-3-vrid-2)# backup
device(config-vif-3-vrid-2)# advertise backup 
device(config-vif-3-vrid-2)# ipv6-address 2001:DB8::1
device(config-vif-3-vrid-2)# accept-mode
device(config-vif-3-vrid-2)# activate
History
Release version Command history
08.0.01 This command was introduced.
08.0.30b This command was modified to explain that the accept-mode command does not enable a response to SSH packets. The usage guidelines were also updated.