Hi, I've been trying to setup keepalive (vrrp) with LVS in direct routing on Centos 5 and I am stuck... Installed ipvsadm from the repo (had to touch /etc/sysconfig/ipvsadm because it complained it was missing) Compiled keepalived-1.1.16.tar.gz Test setup: main switch (192.168.16.0/20) | eth0: 192.168.28.[226|227] VIP=192.168.16.123 2 lvs/keepalived servers eth1: 10.0.0.[1|2] | test switch (10.0.0.0/8) | 10.0.0.[11|12] VIP=192.168.16.123 test servers (real servers) 192.168.16.[228|229] | back to main switch But let's focus on the 2 lvs servers... keepalived.conf: global_defs { notification_email { root at localhost } notification_email_from keepalived at lvs1.iper smtp_server 127.0.0.1 smtp_connect_timeout 30 router_id LVS_MASTER ### BACKUP on the backup ### } vrrp_instance VI_1 { state MASTER ### BACKUP on the backup ### interface eth0 lvs_sync_daemon_interface eth1 virtual_router_id 51 priority 100 ### 99 on the backup ### advert_int 1 smtp_alert virtual_ipaddress { 192.168.16.123 } } virtual_server 192.168.16.123 80 { delay_loop 6 lb_algo rr lb_kind DR persistence_timeout 50 protocol TCP real_server 10.0.0.11 80 { weight 1 } real_server 10.0.0.12 80 { weight 1 } sorry_server 127.0.0.1 80 } /var/log/messages: Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived: Starting Keepalived v1.1.16 (02/19,2009) Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Using MII-BMSR NIC polling thread... Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Registering Kernel netlink reflector Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Registering Kernel netlink command channel Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Registering gratutious ARP shared channel Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived: Starting VRRP child process, pid=19385 Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Opening file '/etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf'. Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: Configuration is using : 35092 Bytes Feb 20 15:01:09 lvs1 Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP sockpool: [ifindex(2), proto(112), fd(9,10)] And that's it... no VIP showing up... no error message... Looking at the (outdated) log example from the keepalived doc, I seem to miss all the "parsing" of the configuration. A bit like if it was stuck in the vrrp child... On the backup, I get these extra: Feb 20 15:01:18 lvs2 Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP_Instance(VI_1) Entering BACKUP STATE Feb 20 15:01:18 lvs2 Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP sockpool: [ifindex(2), proto(112), fd(9,10)] Feb 20 15:01:18 lvs2 Keepalived_vrrp: Remote SMTP server [127.0.0.1:25] connected. Feb 20 15:01:18 lvs2 Keepalived_vrrp: SMTP alert successfully sent. ps auxfw: root 19384 0.0 0.0 4796 624 ? Ss 15:01 0:00 keepalived -D root 19385 0.0 0.1 4864 1048 ? S 15:01 0:00 \_ keepalived -D lvs1, no VIP: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:04:23:9e:f3:74 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.28.226/20 brd 192.168.31.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::204:23ff:fe9e:f374/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:04:23:9e:f3:75 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.0.1/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth1 inet6 fe80::204:23ff:fe9e:f375/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 lvs2, no VIP: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:04:23:b2:65:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.28.227/20 brd 192.168.31.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::204:23ff:feb2:6502/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:04:23:b2:65:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.0.2/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global eth1 inet6 fe80::204:23ff:feb2:6503/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 ipvsadm -l -n shows nothing tcpdump -i eth1 -p vrrp shows nothing Any idea why keepalived would not bring the VIP up and setup vrrp? Thx, JD