<![CDATA[VARP availability]]>Will TNSR support MLAG in the future? If so will the support for VARP also come into play?

MLAG + VARP is the modern approach to building datacenters so im hoping at some point in the future it will be available.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/196255/varp-availabilityRSS for NodeThu, 10 Sep 2026 05:03:39 GMTSat, 01 Feb 2025 00:13:15 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to VARP availability on Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:26:27 GMT]]>Following up on this..
EVPN at the control plane with a anycast gateway would help here....

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1246178https://forum.netgate.com/post/1246178Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:26:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VARP availability on Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:05:18 GMT]]>@fractal_boy Sure but thats a bit legacy when it comes to datacenter design to be honest.
Having multiple VRRP groups isn't a modern design. VARP also wont have traffic run over the MLAG link but VRRP will.
Even thinking about multiple VRRP groups in my use case isn't scalable. I have over 100 SVIs in production and development environments. Its starts getting unwieldy

edit:
Looking at your drawing, forget end user or servers downstream. Pretend its a dual homed switch or server that has a LAG up to the MC-LAG. It can send frames to either spine. That alone would warrant VARP.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205136https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205136Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:05:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VARP availability on Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:05:09 GMT]]>@michmoor what about if you run VRRP on TNSR routers and split your active virtual IP's (masters) between TNSR's. You won't have unused links in this case — something like this drawing.

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]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205131https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205131Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:05:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VARP availability on Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:15:13 GMT]]>@fractal_boy
VARP with MC-LAG allows for active-active forwarding. I don't want unused links in my datacenter.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205125https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205125Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:15:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to VARP availability on Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:05:18 GMT]]>hi @michmoor may I ask what is your use case scenario? What are you trying to achieve?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205124https://forum.netgate.com/post/1205124Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:05:18 GMT