standard

VRRP

IETF protocol, specified in RFC 5798, that lets a group of machines share a virtual IP address: one node is elected to own and answer for the address, and the others take it over when its advertisements stop.

Known aliases

RFC 5798
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

VRRP hands the load balancer's IP to a standby in about three seconds

A dev.to walkthrough of RFC 5798 shows two balancers sharing one virtual IP, electing an owner by priority and heartbeating once a second. The adoption cost includes a firewall rule that names IP protocol 112.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives20
Confidence58