[Keepalived-devel] active/active setup not reverting

[Michael H. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi, I'm new to the list. I hope this is the right place to post my
question. Any help would be much appreciated as I don't really know
what I'm doing :)

I'm trying to setup a load balanced router where there are 2 VIPs and
both nodes can take over the other's ip. The problem that I'm seeing
is that when I disable networking on node2 and then re-enable it a few
seconds later node2 does not revert to being active. I keep seeing
this message in node2's logs:

  VRRP_Instance(VI_2) Received lower prio advert, forcing new election

However the election never seems to take place because node1 keeps
node's address. Here are the config files I have on each node:

NODE1:
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
  state MASTER
  interface eth0
  virtual_router_id 51
  priority 150
  advert_int 1
  # authentication {
  #   auth_type AH
  #   auth_pass k@l!ve1
  # }
  virtual_ipaddress {
    172.16.209.131/24 dev eth0
  }
}

vrrp_instance VI_2 {
  state BACKUP
  interface eth0
  virtual_router_id 52
  priority 100
  advert_int 1
  # authentication {
  #   auth_type AH
  #   auth_pass k@l!ve3
  # }
  virtual_ipaddress {
    172.16.209.129/24 dev eth0
  }
}

NODE2:
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
  state BACKUP
  interface eth0
  virtual_router_id 51
  priority 100
  advert_int 1
  # authentication {
  # auth_type AH
  # auth_pass k@l!ve1
  # }
  virtual_ipaddress {
    172.16.209.131/24 dev eth0
  }
}

vrrp_instance VI_2 {
  state MASTER
  interface eth0
  virtual_router_id 52
  priority 150
  advert_int 1
  # authentication {
  # auth_type AH
  # auth_pass k@l!ve3
  # }
  virtual_ipaddress {
    172.16.209.129/24 dev eth0
  }
}