If you have a VRRP network with a mix of existing routers that do not support DvR and devices that do support DvR, you can migrate your VRRP network to DvR using this high-level process. This migration process assumes the following design:
Existing routers are the VRRP masters.
Existing routers are the default gateways for all subnets.
Fabric Connect network with DvR-capable nodes where DvR is configured globally, but not on I-SIDs, on the VOSS devices; and VOSS devices operate in Layer 2 mode for the VRRP VLANs that need to be migrated.
Important
When you configure DvR on Controllers with existing VRRP VLANs, ensure there is no VRRP VLAN with VRID 37 or VRID 38. VRID 37 conflicts with the DvR gateway MAC used by all DvR nodes. The DvR gateway MAC is a constant value 00:00:5e:00:01:25; VRRP VRID 37 translates to the same MAC. Similarly, VRRP VRID 38 translates to 00:00:5e:00:01:26, and is used within DvR. If you have a VRRP VLAN with either of these VRIDs, change the VRID to a different value.
Note
You can easily fall back to the original VRRP master to change VRRP priorities back.
Note
For each VLAN/I-SID, ensure that VRRP is disabled on all nodes before you configure DvR interfaces on the Controllers for the VLAN/I-SID.
Keep in mind that you can only enable DvR on VLAN or I-SIDs where all participating BEBs are DvR-capable.
Anytime when falling back, you can delete the DvR interface on the I-SID (this includes disabling DvR, removing the DVR-GW-IP and removing the VLAN IP address) and configure the VRRP interface again (this includes adding the VLAN IP address and adding VRRP again), however, ensure you delete the DvR interfaces on all Controllers first before you enable VRRP again.
Start with VRRP VLAN:
vlan create 250 name vlan_test250 type port-mstprstp 0 vlan i-sid 250 111250 interface vlan 250 ip address 192.0.2.3 255.255.255.0 interface vlan 250 ip vrrp version 2 ip vrrp address 10 192.0.2.1 ip vrrp 10 priority 180 ip vrrp 10 backup-master enable ip vrrp 10 enable exit
Change to DvR VLAN:
interface vlan 250 no ip vrrp address 10 192.0.2.1 no ip address 192.0.2.3 exit interface vlan 250 dvr gw-ipv4 192.0.2.1 dvr enable ip address 192.0.2.3 255.255.255.0 exit
Change back to VRRP VLAN:
interface vlan 250 no dvr enable no dvr gw-ipv4 no ip address 192.0.2.3 exit interface vlan 250 ip address 192.0.2.3 255.255.255.0 ip vrrp version 2 ip vrrp address 10 192.0.2.1 ip vrrp 10 priority 180 ip vrrp 10 backup-master enable ip vrrp 10 enable exit