System Administration Commands				vrrpd(1M)



NAME
     vrrpd - VRRP daemon

SYNOPSIS
    vrrpd [-f config_file]


DESCRIPTION
    The vrrpd (VRRP daemon) is the daemon program for the VRRP service.

    Once started, it creates all VRRP instances listed in the configuration
    file. If the configuration is empty or doesn't exist, no VRRP instances
    are created.

    When it is running, it listens for the requests from the vrrpadm(1M)
    tool or other VRRP administration tools, checks if the requesting
    process has the necessary privilige, executes the operation and
    returns the result. Most operations (create, delete, startup, shutdown,
    modify) require the PRIV_SYS_NET_CONFIG and PRIV_NET_RAWACCESS
    privileges; the 'show' operation doesn't require extra privileges.

    When a VRRP instance state changes, a sysevent is delivered. Third-
    party programs can subscribe to these sysevents and thus can do
    certain things when the state transition occurs. The system event
    has the following properties:

	class:		ES_vrrp
	subclass:	ESC_vrrp_state_change
	vendor:		SUNW
	publisher:	vrrpd

    An event has three name-value pair attributes:

	vrrp_event_version (integer): “1” for this version.
	vrrp_inst_name     (string):   the VRRP instance name.
	vrrp_state_change  (string):   the type of the state transition.
            The value could be one of the six: init_to_back, init_to_mast,
            back_to_mast, back_to_init, mast_to_back, mast_to_init.

    The vrrpd daemon is managed by the service management facility, smf(5),
    under the service identifier:

      svc:/network/vrrp:default

    It depends on the ndp service:

      require_all/none svc:/network/routing/ndp

    The pathname of the configuration file is the only property of the
    SMF service. On start or restart the content in the configuration file
    is loaded. Manual modification to this configuration file is not
    recommended.


SEE ALSO
     vrrpd(1M), libvrrp(3LIB)