After an adjustable amount of time (reconnect delay), a router that has logged off attempts to establish its main or backup connection again without propagating its priority first. If the main connection was successfully established, the backup event is terminated and the router returns to propagating its main priority. If only the backup connection was established, then the router falls back into the normal backup event and begins propagating its backup priority again.
As soon as a device can reestablish its primary connection, the router begins propagating with its main priority again and becomes the master:
- Devices that are in backup mode with a lower main priority than the active master can also leave backup mode and propagate their main priority due to the fact that their backup connection is not required in this state.
- Devices that are in backup mode with a higher main priority than the active master can remain in backup mode as long as they are not able to establish their higher-prioritized primary connection.
- Devices that have completely logged out of the VRRP group due to the unavailability of a VRRP remote site over the backup connection return to the normal backup mode.
