Exam 200-301 topic 1 question 505 discussion

As you know that HSRP uses this virtual MAC address, 0000.0C07.ACxy, where xy is the HSRP group number in hexadecimal. so your HSRP group no is 14 which is in a decimal format so we need to change it into hexadecimal 14 = 0000 1110 binary 0000 1110 = 0e hex so by this process, for HSRP Group 14 the Mac address will be : 00:00:0c:07ac:0e

A. 00:05:5e:19:0c:14. HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) is a protocol that allows multiple routers to work together to present the appearance of a single virtual router to the hosts on a LAN. When a group is configured for HSRP, the routers within the group communicate with each other to determine which router should be the active (forwarding) router and which router should be the standby (backup) router. Each HSRP group is assigned a virtual MAC address that is shared by the active and standby routers in the group. The virtual MAC address is used as the source MAC address for all HSRP-related packets, and it is used by the hosts on the LAN to address packets to the HSRP virtual router. The default virtual MAC address for HSRP group 14 is 00:05:5e:19:0c:14. Therefore, option A is the correct answer. Option B is the default virtual MAC address for HSRP group 7, option C is not a valid MAC address format, and option D is the default MAC address for VMware virtual NICs.