Guys, I actually found a solution to this. After much googling I was able to come up with this: vrrp_instance VI_1 { interface eth1 state MASTER virtual_router_id 51 priority 101 # 101 on master, 100 on backup *dont_track_primary* vrrp_unicast_bind 10.40.116.30 # Internal IP of this machine vrrp_unicast_peer 10.40.116.31 # Internal IP of peer virtual_ipaddress { 10.40.116.34 } The key to getting this to work was to add the entry you see in bold above to the config. dont_track_primary. I'm not sure if that's the best way to solve this problem. But I know that adding that line allowed me to do what I needed to do. After that I could ping the virtual address. Thanks for all the suggestions. Tim On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner < marcelo.leitner at gmail.com> wrote: > Em 29-09-2015 15:03, Gordon Messmer escreveu: > >> On 09/29/2015 09:14 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> >>> And if I do an ifconfig command I see no evidence of an eth1 existing. >>> >> >> "ifconfig -a" will show you all of your interfaces. >> > > Maybe there is a confusion here. Sounds like Tim thought keepalived would > create that eth1, like a tunnel interface, but it won't. You have to > specify an interface that actually exists so that the VIP address will be > added as a secondary address to ip to that interface. > > HTH > > Marcelo > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B