Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary redundancy protocol designed to ensure high availability of the default gateway in a network. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to set up HSRP: Connect to your Cisco switch using a console cable or through SSH/Telnet. Provide. Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP): How it works, Failover Process, Messages and Timers, Versions and Addressing, Election and Preemption, Load Balancing, Interface Tracking, HSRP configuration, States, and Misconfiguration Troubleshooting were all covered in this blog. If the active core switch goes down the standby takes over as the.