priority

Sets the priority of a physical router in a VRRP router group.

Syntax

priority range

Command Default

The default priority is 100.

Parameters

range: The priority of a physical router in a virtual router group. Higher numbers have priority over lower numbers. Valid values range from 1 to 254.

Modes

Virtual-router-group configuration mode

Virtual-router-extended-group configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

You can perform this command for VRRP or VRRP-E.

When set, the highest priority backup router will always be the master. (For VRRP, however, the owner is always the master if it is available.) If not set, a higher priority backup will not preempt a lower priority backup that is acting as master.

For an owner router in VRRP, the priority automatically becomes 255 if the virtual IP address of the virtual router and the real IP address of the owner are the same.

Examples

To set the priority to 110 for the VRRP virtual group 1:

device# configure terminal
device(config)# protocol vrrp 
device(config)# interface ve 10 
device(config-if-Ve-10)# vrrp-group 1 
device(config-vrrp-group-1)# priority 110

To set the priority to 110 for the VRRP-E virtual group 1:

device# configure terminal
device(config)# ipv6 protocol vrrp-extended 
device(config)# interface ve 10 
device(config-if-Ve-10)# ipv6 vrrp-extended-group 1
device(config-vrrp-extended-group-1)# priority 110