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I currently am trying to create a setup with N servers where 1 server is the master for a Virtual IP, and the (N-1) servers act as backups, presumably controlled by keepalived. However, one issue I see with keepalived is that its intention is to bind the Virtual IP address (1.2.3.4) to whatever interface I specified (let's call it eth0).

What I intend to do, instead, is to create a Proxy-ARP entry on eth0 for 1.2.3.4. This way, traffic headed to 1.2.3.4 comes to eth0, and since ip_forwarding is permitted on my host, routing table entries on the host will forward them to a virtual interface for further processing.

Is this use case supported within keepalived? I did get this setup working properly with ucarp, but this is mainly due to the fact that ucarp has the concept of vip-up and vip-down scripts, where I can insert custom commands to create Proxy-ARP entries and send a GARP.

stoneman_41
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Why would you want this? As far as I know, it is not supported as VRRP is a protocol that needs to be able to talk between all participating hosts on the same subnet.

If you want to share a virtual IP address between several servers, and you want to attach it to a loopback interface, you should look at anycast routing. Run a routing protocol on your servers and on your routers (e.g. OSPF or BGP), let each server advertise the same IP address and make scripts that stop/start advertising the shared virtual IP address based on whatever you want, e.g. a service stops (e.g. Apache crashed) or the server loses/gains connectivity to a backend database etc.

Tommiie
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