VRRP - yes or no

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

I see a lot of articles about VRRP in the last days.

You can read some opinions and insights in these threads:

What is ClusterXL and VRRP ? 

HA Cluster with 150+ VLAN Interfaces 

ClusterXL - standby cannot reach gateway 

 Do we still need VRRP in future versions or is ClusterXL enough?

VRRP - YES	4
VRRP - NO	43

[Maarten_Sjouw]

We have and we still use VRRP also for other reasons, not in a cluster environment. This is in a very special setup with a network loadbalancer / prioritizer / compresion unit. Here the default route is shared between a router and the FW based on VRRP.

[Lars_Skerka]

We have over 600 Check Point customers and have all switched to ClusterXL. I see no need to use VRRP.

Best regards,

Lars

[Timothy_Hall]

Right, one of the possible use cases for VRRP is using an external load balancer as I mentioned here:

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/6079-what-is-clusterxl-and-vrrp#comment-10351 

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