Here is a simple topology. Will this make sense? What could even be the use case?
The R1 and R2 are running HSRP or VRRP pair with VIP as 192.168.0.1 and R1 as the active gateway with R2 as standby. The PC1&2 have default gateway to 192.168.0.1 and 172.16.7.1 respectively and both R1&R2 are default route to 1.1.1.1 on WAN router. The WAN router has two equal cost static routes for subnet 192.168.0.0/24 via 1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3.
So if R1&R2 were running dynamic routing protocols with WAN router, the topology would make sense from redundancy/failover perspective...but with static routes everywhere, what could be the benefits of using FHRP then?
Here are failure scenarios from what I can tell:
- The R1 is the active gateway for 192.168.0.0/24 subnet. Somehow R1 port eth0/1 is down...PC2 would lose connectivity to PC1, vice versa; (even with track sla on WAN router for the static routes...)
- The R1 is the active gateway for 192.168.0.0/24 subnet. Somehow R1 port eth0/0 is down OR R1 is down, communication between two PCs would failover to R2;
- The R1 is the active gateway for 192.168.0.0/24 subnet. Somehow R2 port eth0/0 is down OR R2 is down, there should not be any communication impact between the two PCs.
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