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Figure 12 Answering ARP requests

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Each host sends packets to the returned MAC address. As shown in

Figure 13

, Host A sends

packets to Router A and Host B sends packets to Router B.

Figure 13 Sending packets to different routers for forwarding

Virtual forwarder

Virtual forwarder creation

Virtual MAC addresses enable traffic distribution across routers in a VRRP group. To enable routers in the

VRRP group to forward packets, VFs must be created on them. Each VF is associated with a virtual MAC

address in the VRRP group and forwards packets that are sent to this virtual MAC address.

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