Replying to my own mail... > I think you can give both directors the same priority. A director that is > in backup state and receives a vrrp packet with the same priority as it's > own should stay in backup state. But I can imagine it is possible that both > directors get in a state that they both start flapping between master and > backup state. I didn't look at any code, I only quickly reviewed the RFC. > So it might as well just work.
Keepalived 1.2.0 uses a modified VRRPv3 protocol. I just read in that RFC that if both priorities are the same, the one with the greater primary ip address becomes the master. Not sure how keepalived 1.2.0 handles this... 1.1.X uses VRRPv2. That has the previously described behavior. Greets, Sander _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
