Description

VRRPv3 for INET6 is not supported on SRX High-End firewalls.

Symptoms

An error occurs when attempting to configure VRRPv3 for INET6 on a high-end platform: 

root# show interfaces reth0  
redundant-ether-options {
    redundancy-group 1;
}
unit 0 {
    family inet6 {
        address fe80::5:0:0:6/64 {
            vrrp-inet6-group 3 {
                ##
                ## Warning: value virtual-inet6-address ignored: unsupported platform (srx5800)
                ##
                virtual-inet6-address fe80::5:0:0:7;
                ##
                ## Warning: statement ignored: unsupported platform (srx5800)
                ##
                virtual-link-local-address fe80::5:0:0:7;
            }
        }
    }
}

This error is reported in both physical and reth interfaces. 

Solution

Support for VRRPv3 with INET6 under reth interfaces begins from version 18.1R1.