| Certification Program Name: | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) |
| Certification Program ID: | 10613 |
| Certification Program Category: | Switch Interoperability |
| Description: | This verifies a device's ability to act as a standby router in the event of failure using VRRP standards in a multi-vendor network. |
| Interpretation: | Devices earning this certification have demonstrated interoperability using VRRP in both Master and Slave configurations with all possible vendor combinations.
2007 Certified Product Set:
3Com Switch 5500G-EI
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850-P24X
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 9800
Cisco Catalyst 6509-E
Enterasys Matrix™ N-DFE
Enterasys Matrix™ X
Extreme Summit X450a-24t
Extreme BlackDiamond 8806
Foundry FastIron Edge X424 Premium
Foundry FastIron SX 800
Foundry NetIron MLX-4
Foundry BigIron RX-4
IBM Nortel Layer 2-3 GbE Switch Module
IBM Nortel 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
IBM Nortel 10Gb Ethernet Switch Module
HP GbE2c L2/3 Ethernet Blade Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
2004 Product Set:
Cisco Systems: Catalyst
6509
Extreme: BlackDiamond 10808
Foundry: FastIron Edge
9604
Foundry: BigIron MG8
2003 Product Set:
Foundry FastIron Edge 9604
Nortel Passport 1424T
Nortel Passport 8600 |
| Product Applicability: | This certification is applicable to all LAN switches that have implemented IPv4 support. It is an optional component of the 2003/2004 Switch Interoperability Study. |
| Testing Overview: | Participants supporting the two switches under test will alternately configure one switch as a MASTER and the other as a SLAVE. Each switch will be configured to connect to two “common” networks. Both switches will be configured for Virtual Router IP (VRIP) addresses. The Tolly Group will attach an end station to each of the two networks. The Tolly Group engineer will perform a continuous series of PINGs between the end stations. The engineer will then execute the command “arp –a” on each end station to display the ARP table and thereby verify the MAC address of the “Master” router/switch. The Tolly Group will then power off the Master router/switch and record the number of PINGs lost until the network reconverges around the failure and across the SLAVE router/switch. The Tolly Group will again execute the command “arp –a” on each end station to verify that the Slave switch has begun forwarding traffic. The participants configuring the switches under test will then reverse the roles of Master and Slave and The Tolly Group will repeat the test. |