1. A method, comprising: assigning a virtual switch identifier to a group of a plurality of switches, each of the plurality of switches configured with a redundancy protocol; configuring a redundancy protocol priority value for each the plurality of switches; generating at least one link-state routing protocol message including priority information indicative of the redundancy protocol priority value associated with one or more of the plurality of switches, wherein the priority information indicative of the redundancy protocol priority value is included within an out-of-band Intermediate System-To-Intermediate System (IS-IS) type-length-value (TLV) data element of the link-state routing protocol message, wherein the IS-IS TLV data element further includes a switch identifier associated with the redundancy protocol priority value; distributing the at least one link-state routing protocol message to one or more of the plurality of switches; receiving, at a first switch of the plurality of switches having a first redundancy priority value associated therewith, at least one of the link-state routing protocol messages including priority information indicative of at least one other redundancy priority value associated with at least one other switch of the plurality of switches; determining the at least one other redundancy protocol priority value associated with the at least one other switch from the received at least one link-state routing protocol message; and determining a redundancy state of the first switch as one of an active state, standby state, and listen state based upon the first redundancy priority value associated with the first switch and at least one other redundancy protocol priority value associated with the at least one other switch, wherein the first switch is determined to be in the listen state if the first redundancy protocol priority value is less than the highest priority value and the next highest priority value among the at least one other redundancy protocol priority values.