[geeks] BGP on a Cisco Router

[James Sharp]

> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 01:23:53PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > Actually, the more I read about BGP, HSRP sounds like a good idea as
> > well.
> 
> The difference is that HSRP will only do stuff when one of the routes fails,
> whereas BGP will let you use both routes at the same time, without your
> users noticing *as well as* dealing with a failure on one of the routes.

I always thought that HSRP was more of a LAN-Oriented protocol.  Hang two redundant routers off a switch mesh...they talk to each other (one in standby, one in active), and if the standby can't talk to the active, it starts MAC spoofing for the active.