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Detection, which checks whether a neighbor node is failed by sending unicast neighbor

request messages to it. In order to reduce the overheads of sending neighbor request

messages, these messages are only sent to those neighbor nodes which are sending flows,

and are only sent if there is no instruction of UP state of the router in a period of time. In

Neighbor Unreachability Detection, if adopting default parameters, it will take about 38

seconds to detect an unreachable router, which is a delay not ignorable for users and might

cause a time-out in some transport protocols. Compared with NDP, VRRP provides a fast

default gateway switch. In VRRP, backup routers can take up the unavailable master router in

about 3 seconds (default parameter), and this process needs no interaction with hosts, which

means being transparent to hosts.

32.1.1 The Format of VRRPv3 Message

VRRPv3 has its own message format, VRRP messages are used to communicate the priority

of routers and the state of Master in the backup group, they are encapsulated in IPv6

messages to send, and are sent to the specified IPv6 multicast address. The format of

VRRPv3 message is shown in Graph 1. The source address of the IPv6 message

encapsulating the VRRPv3 message is the local address of the outbound interface of the

message, and the destination address of it is the IPv6 multicast address(the multicast

allocated to VRRPv3 is FF02:0:0:0:0:0:0:12). The number of hops should be limited to 255,

and the next message head is 112(representing a VRRP message).

The meaning of each field in a VRRPv3 message is shown as follows:

Version: The version of VRRPv3, whose value is 3;

Type: The type of VRRP messages. There is only one type: ADVERTISEMENT, and its value

is 1;

Virtual Rtr ID: The ID of the virtual router;

Priority: Priority, ranging from 0 to 255;

Count IPv6 Addr: The number of IPv6 addresses in a VRRPv3 message, the minimum of

which is 1;

Rsvd: Reserved field, whose value is 0;

Adver Int: The advertisement interval of VRRPv3 messages, in seconds;

Checksum: The checksum, taking account of the whole VRRPv3 message and an IPv6

pseudo head (please refer to RFC2460 for details);

IPv6 Address(es): one or more IPv6 addresses related to the virtual router, the number of
which is the same with ”Count IPv6 Addr”, and the first one of which should be the virtual IPv6

address of the virtual router.