An animal control HQ wants first-hop redundancy for city VLANs on a pair of distribution switches with a virtual gateway IP. Which FHRP choice and behavior match a classic active/standby design?
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Short Explanation
Hosts need one friendly gateway address that survives a switch failing—like a shared desk phone number that rings whoever is on duty. HSRP (or VRRP) keeps an active forwarder and a hot standby on that virtual IP. That is the classic city-VLAN pattern.
Full Explanation
HSRP and VRRP provide first-hop redundancy with a virtual IP and active/standby (or master/backup) forwarding. GLBP can load-share with multiple AVFs but is not required when simple active/standby suffices, and HSRP absolutely supports a VIP on Cisco platforms. Per-host dual physical gateways or DHCP renumbering are poor substitutes for FHRP.