Configuring FHRP - VRRP

Both FHRPs (HSRP & GLBP) are Cisco proprietary so what do you when you have to support a Cisco and a non-Cisco device in a redundant setup? Well you turn to the industry standard Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) RFC 2338. One of the biggest advantages of using VRRP is that you do not need an additional IP for the "Virtual IP". It can be the IP of the actual interface. For example in both HSRP and GLBP blogtorial you can see how my virtual IP was set to 192.168.1.254, however on this blogtorial notice that my virtual IP is the same as R1's interface IP (192.168.1.1). 

Consider the topology and let's get started. 

Objectives: 

• Configure R1 and R2 with VRRP and authentication
• R1 should be the master router and R2 should be the backup router. 

Relevant configurations are posted below.