ZyXEL Communications ES-4024A User Manual

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ES-4024A Series Switch Support Notes

1. choose ‘Simple’ for authentication

2. type ‘12345’ for the key and press ‘Apply’ button

3. same ‘Virtual Router ID” (=7 in this example)

4. lower priority (=100 in this example) to be a backup role

5. same uplink gateway in this scenario example (192.168.254.1)

6. same primary virtual IP (192.168.1.100 in this example)

Step 8. Make sure uplink is ok to be ping. (Otherwise, the uplink status will

stay at ‘Init’.

Step 9. Check the VRRP status via GUI. Both Master and Backup switches

should be alive as following.

For Master,

For Backup,

Note: The redundancy works when it detect uplink gateway can be ping and other

VRRP group members are not available or the switch is with the highest priority

among alive VRRP switches.

Note: The design of authentication and key is for the authentication between Master

and Backup. It only takes effect to configure for downlink network.