Description

This article explains why VRRP does not work on vSRX hosted on VMware hypervisors.

Symptoms

If VRRP is configured on vSRX which is based on VMware hypervisors. VRRP neighbourship comes up, However Virtual router IP address will not be reachable.

Solution

This is expected behaviour; VRRP is not supported on vSRX instances hosted on VMware hypervisors because VMware does not support virtual MAC addresses.
For more information refer PR1079742.

Modification History

2023-09-06: Initial release