A protocol giving LAN gateways redundancy; Azure VNets don't use it for routing.
Also called Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains VRRP in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- LAN
A local area network covering a single site. By default, Delivery Optimization downloads share content between peers that sit behind the same NAT.
- Redundancy
So that hardware failures, datacentre outages or a regional disaster cannot destroy data, Azure Storage keeps multiple copies: only in the primary region with LRS and ZRS, or in a secondary region as well with GRS and GZRS.
- Geographic
A Traffic Manager routing method that picks the endpoint according to where the user is located geographically.