In part 2 of the HSRP series I will cover the configuration & show you how to verify the configuration. I have put together a Microsoft® Visio® diagram which shows you a lot more than simply Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). You need to concentrate on Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) configuration alone and at a very high level look at the diagram and think about High availability.

In this 2 part article series I will walk you through the features of Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), configuration of Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) using command line & demystifying Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP). Before we jump in straight to the configuration you need to make it clear in your mind that Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is NOT a “Routing Protocol". This protocol does not update the routing tables in anyways whatsoever.

In this article I will try to cover the three different versions of RIP which have been developed and evolved over years since 1988 and compare them briefly for quick reference. Different vendors have implemented there flavor of RIP and this article is entirely focused on Cisco devices. As we all know every vendor implements it differently; but most of the core features remain identical.

Microsoft has taken Messaging to the next level & it is truly worthy of praise. In this article I will only cover a "Typical" install of Exchange 2007 32 BIT on a single server. How easy it is to simply deploy an Exchange 2007 server and the out of box experience. Your messaging solutions will be up and running especially if it is a brand new domain in no time. You will surely impress your boss and get a pay rise. :)

Lets see how this can be achieved.

The Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP) significantly enhances the basic Web caching capabilities found in Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server) 2006 Standard Edition.

I will demonstrate in this article how to enable "Intra-Array communication" in Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006 Enterprise Edition. This is extremely straight forward as long it has been planned correctly. I have discussed most of this in my earlier articles I have already published hence I will not go through this all over again. So let's see how this is possible!

I will demonstrate in this article how to configure Network Load Balancing with Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2006. This can be done once you have correctly installed and configured the core ISA & CS services on relevant servers; articles related to these have already been published.