The VRRP Configuration page allows configuration of virtual routers using the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol. VRRP specifies an election protocol that dynamically assigns responsibility for a virtual IP address to a single router among a collection of VRRP routers. The VRRP router controlling the virtual IP address is called the Master router; it forwards packets sent to the virtual IP address. The election process provides dynamic failover in the forwarding responsibility, should the Master become unavailable. The virtual IP addres can then be used as the default first-hop router by endhosts. The advantage gained from using the VRRP virtual IP address is a higher-availability default path without requiring configuration of dynamic routing or router discovery protocols on every endhost.