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Advertise-backup – Brocade Network OS Command Reference v4.1.0 User Manual

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advertise-backup

Enables a backup VRRP router to send advertisement frames to the master VRRP router.

Synopsis

advertise-backup

no advertise backup

Operands

There are no operands for this command.

Defaults

Advertisement is disabled.

Command Modes

Virtual-router-group configuration mode

Description

Use this command to enable a backup VRRP router to send periodic transmissions of
advertisement frames to all routers in the network. If a backup router is enabled to send
advertisement frames, the frames are sent every 60 seconds.

Usage Guidelines

This command can be used for VRRP-E, but not for VRRP.

Enter no advertise backup to return to the default setting (no periodic transmission).

Examples

To enable the backup VRRP routers to send advertisement frames to the master VRRP router:

switch(config)# rbridge-id 101

switch(config-rbridge-id-101)# int ve 25

switch(config-ve-25)# vrrp-extended-group 1

switch(config-vrrp-extended-group-1)# advertise-backup

See Also

advertisement-interval (VRRP), backup-advertisement-interval, vrrp-extended-group