[Free] Hsrp For Network Fail-Over

The Hot Standby Routing Protocol, useful for CCNA and CCNP exam candidates. – Free Course

Added on May 23, 2025 IT & Software 2 min read

What you’ll learn

The Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
How HSRP is configured on the CLI
How to troubleshoot HSRP
How to test HSRP fail-over

Requirements

Have Packet-Tracer, GNS3, or some other network simulation app installed so you can build a lab with me.
No pre-knowledge of networking needed. Everything is explained in plain English. Just follow along with me.

Description

In this course, you will learn one of the most important protocols for redundancy: HSRP, the Hot Standby Routing Protocol. It is called “hot standby” because the backup routers are powered on and are functioning as normal. But in the HSRP environment, only one router is the Active Gateway for its network.

This redundancy provides fail-over in case the primary gateway router malfunctions or otherwise becomes unavailable. As such, this course is vital to anyone wanting to pass their CCNA, CCNP, or Network+ certification exams, because redundancy is an important part of network engineering.

Plus I will teach you something most other instructors do not teach: I will teach you how to test your HSRP environment by intentionally disabling the network, step-by-step, so you understand how everything works.

This course includes:

How to set up a lab in Packet-Tracer
How to assign static IPv4 addresses
Creating two contiguous subnetworks to be our LANs
How to assign a default gateway to a LAN
How to verify (test) your configurations
How to configure the Hot Standby Routing Protocol on multiple routers and LANs
What a virtual gateway IP address is and how to create it
How to verify (test) your HSRP configurations
New specific HSRP show commands that may appear on your exam
How to test HSRP by intentionally disabling part of the network
Two quizzes to test your knowledge
A review of HSRP’s key features

This course also includes a FREE copy of my book “On the Command Line” featuring 100 of the most common configurations you will encounter in the real world of network engineering, and often found on the CCNA, CCNP, and Network+ exams.

Author(s): Jeff Diamond