Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Changing The Active Router In HSRP
To pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP certification, you’ve got to know HSRP inside and out. While the operation and basic commands of HSRP are pretty simple, there are some important details that are easily overlooked but are vital in getting HSRP to work the way you want it to. Let’s take a look at using the priority command correctly on both the exam and in production networks.
A key value in the show standby command is the priority. The default is 100, and the router with the highest priority will be the primary HSRP router. We’ll raise the default priority on R2 and see the results. R3 is currently the Active router and R2 the standby, so let’s raise the priority on R2 and see what happens.
R2(config)#interface ethernet0
R2(config-if)#standby 5 priority 150
R2#show standby
Ethernet0 – Group 5
Local state is Standby, priority 150
Hellotime 4 sec, holdtime 12 sec
Next hello sent in 0.896
Virtual IP address is 172.12.23.10 configured
Active router is 172.12.23.3, priority 100 expires...
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