R1 and R2 attach to the same Ethernet VLAN, with subnet 10.1.19.0/25, with addresses 10.1.19.1 and 10.1.19.2, respectively, configured with the ip address interface subcommand. The routers use HSRP. The network engineer prefers to have R1 be the default router when both R1 and R2 are up. Which of the following is the likely default router setting for hosts in this subnet?
- 10.1.19.1
- 10.1.19.2
- Another IP address in subnet 10.1.19.0/25 other than 10.1.19.1 and 10.1.19.2
- A host name that the FHRP mini-DNS will initially point to 10.1.19.1
Explanation: HSRP uses a virtual IP address. The virtual IP address comes from the same subnet as the routers’ LAN interfaces but is a different IP address than the router addresses configured with the ip address interface subcommand. As a result, the hosts will not point to 10.1.19.1 or 10.1.19.2 in this design. The other wrong answer lists an idea of using the Domain Name System (DNS) to direct hosts to the right default router; although this idea exists in some other forms of network load balancing, it is not a part of any of the three FHRP protocols.
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