Enabling an Owner VRRP Device

This task is performed on the device that is designated as the owner VRRP device because the IP address of one of its physical interfaces is assigned as the IP address of the virtual router. For example, Router 1 is the owner VRRP device in the figure that follows. For each VRRP session, there are master and backup routers, and the owner router is elected, by default, as the master router.

Basic VRRP Topology

  1. On the device designated as the owner VRRP device, from privileged EXEC mode, enter global configuration mode by issuing the configure terminal command. 
    device# configure terminal
  2. Globally enable VRRP. 
    device(config)# router vrrp
  3. Configure the Ethernet interface link for Router 1. 
    device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/6
  4. Configure the IP address of the interface. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6)# ip address 10.53.5.1/24
  5. Assign Router 1 to the virtual router ID (VRID) 1. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6)# ip vrrp vrid 1
    Note: You can assign a VRID number in the range of 1 through 255.
  6. Designate this router as the VRRP owner device. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# owner
  7. Configure the VRRP version. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# version 2
  8. Configure the IP address of the VRID. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# ip-address 10.53.5.1
  9. Enable the VRRP session. 
    device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# activate

The following example configures a VRRP owner device. 

device# configure terminal
device(config)# router vrrp
device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/6
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6)# ip address 10.53.5.1/24
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6)# ip vrrp vrid 1
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# owner
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# version 2
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# ip-address 10.53.5.1
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/6-vrid-1)# activate
VRRP router 1 for this interface is activating
Parent topic: VRRPv2