VRRP BGP

Good Day,

Today I got hold of 2 CCR routers and upgraded to version 6.11

I am planning to use VRRP to setup a “front end” interface for eBGP peering and “back end” interface for static routing.

Has any successfully setup Mikrotik using VRRP for router redundancy?

Please share your experience! :wink:

Thanks!

why you want to have vrrp at the “frontend”? usually you would have just two BGP sessions. everytime your routing protocol can do the job you should prefer this over VRRP. VRRP is nice for network segments where no routing protocol is spoken.

if you do BGP on a vrrp interface the session would break once you have failover. a new session with the new master has to be initialized. That’s something you want to avoid. Imagine a fulltable has to be transfered and all routing calculation has to be done. It can take minutes and produce high load on the router.

Dear jaykay2342

The reason why I want VRRP for front end is to have hardware redundancy IE 2 CCRs (Active - Standby) per eBGP peer.

Since CCR/Mikrotik does not have Active Standby cluster config, I am looking of utilizing VRRP so if RouterA failed, RouterB could take over while I am fixing/replacing RouterA

What do you think?

Regards,
Kellogs

as i mentioned you can reach redundancy by having 2 BGP Sessions. One from each router. if you want a Active/Standby setup might need to make the routing more “expensive” on the backup-link. e.g. by announcing the prefixes with a pretended path from the backup device.