A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about attacking HSRP (Hot Standby Redundancy Protocol) and how to defend it from such attacks. Today, I'm going to discuss how to optimize HSRP timers. You may ask, why bother optimizing HSRP timers? One of the main reasons is to provide a better user experience in the case of failure. HSRP timers There are two timers that you can manipulate to optimize HSRP. The first one is the hello time. The hello time is the interval in seconds or …