Re: [Keepalived-devel] Netlink error when using VRRP on an interface with a digit in its name

[Vincent B. <be...@lu...>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:46:07 +0200, Tore Anderson
<tor...@re...> wrote:

> Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP_Instance(ksd1-storage_vr1) Entering MASTER STATE
> Keepalived_vrrp: Netlink: error: Numerical result out of range,
> type=(20), seq=1276173024, pid=0
> 
> The relevant configuration looks like this:
> 
> vrrp_instance ksd1-storage_vr1 {
> 	interface ksd1-storage
> 	state BACKUP
> 	mcast_src_ip 87.238.56.5
> 	virtual_router_id 1
> 	priority 100
> 	preempt_delay 60
> 	virtual_ipaddress {
> 		10.21.3.1/26 label ksd1-storage:vr1
> 	}
> }
> 
> The virtual address never gets activated, either.
> 
> If I rename the VLAN so it's called «ksd-storage» instead, it works as
> expected.  So it appears Keepalived have some bug that causes it to not
> work correcly on interfaces that have digits in their names.

label cannot be longer than 15 characters. I think that ksda-storage:vr1
would not work either. You can test with IP :
$ ip addr add 127.1.2.1/24 dev lo label lo:toto12345678
$ ip addr add 127.1.2.1/24 dev lo label lo:toto123456789
RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range