Enabling Master Preemption

By default, a router is enabled to preempt a lower priority master for the configured virtual router. If the router owns the virtual router IP address, it can not be preempted and always preempts other routers regardless of the priority setting or this preemption setting. Use the vrrp preempt command to enable or disable master preemption on this VRRP router.

It may be desirable to set a delay that a higher priority backup router should wait before preempting a lower priority master. By default there is no delay. To set a delay between 1 and 900 seconds, use the vrrp preempt-delay command in interface configuration command mode.