What is the purpose of HSRP?

What is the purpose of HSRP?

• It provides a continuous network connection when a router fails.
• It prevents a rogue switch from becoming the STP root.
• It enables an access port to immediately transition to the forwarding state.
• It prevents malicious hosts from connecting to trunk ports.

Explanation: HSRP is a first hop redundancy protocol and allows hosts to use multiple gateways through the use of a single virtual router.

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