[Keepalived-devel] VRID and configuration replication

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Hello all!

I'm no VRRP expert, but AFAIK the priority in each virtual router
instance has to be different in order to maintain a deterministic
master-slave scheme.

My understanding is that if two nodes have the same priority, they'll
successfully select a master and backup node and avoid conflicts, but
you won't be able to fully tell (without looking) which one is master at
which time (basically, either of them may be master at any particular
time their priority is the highest in the VR block).

So my question is this: would it not be prudent to split the
configuration file in two: i.e., one main configuration with all the
router info, checkers, etc, and one "id" configuration which contains
the router ids, and any other information that should NOT be the same
between two boxes?

I could work on this and provide a patch, but I want to get feedback
(and corrections to any misconceptions I may have) before I get started.

Thanks

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