I was working on a server today, debian squeeze. After testing this on two staging servers, I added a virtual network interface to /etc/network/interfaces like this:
# The primary network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.100.2.70
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 10.100.0.1
# adding this one
auto eth0:1
allow-hotplug eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 10.100.2.77
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 10.100.0.1
Keepalived is managing a virtual IP on the machine
ip addr show
....
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:81:81:e5:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.100.2.70/16 brd 10.100.255.255 scope global eth0
inet 10.100.2.72/32 scope global eth0
With the new interfaces data in place, a sudo service networking restart
brought down the network on the box. With a console via iDrac the network wouldn't start even with the new lines removed from the file, and it required a reboot. I know I could have done if-up eth0:0
, but I wanted to see the whole thing work.
Is there some feature of keepalived that would have caused my problem? The only log messages I see in syslog are
Sep 30 15:48:17 pgpool01 Keepalived_vrrp: Kernel is reporting: interface eth0 DOWN
Sep 30 15:48:17 pgpool01 Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP_Instance(VI_1) Entering FAULT STATE
Sep 30 15:48:17 pgpool01 Keepalived_vrrp: VRRP_Instance(VI_1) Now in FAULT state
Like I say, I did not see the problems on the staging boxes.
Any tips would be helpful, thanks.
edit: adding ip link and ifconfig output
$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:81:81:e5:54 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:81:81:e5:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:81:e5:54
inet addr:10.100.2.70 Bcast:10.100.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::224:81ff:fe81:e554/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2080027816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2498837332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:683029542202 (636.1 GiB) TX bytes:710577938507 (661.7 GiB)
Interrupt:16 Memory:fc4c0000-fc4e0000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:45564 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:45564 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2279497 (2.1 MiB) TX bytes:2279497 (2.1 MiB)
and keepalived.conf
vrrp_script chk_pgpool { # Requires keepalived-1.1.13
script "killall -0 pgpool" # cheaper than pidof
interval 2 # check every 2 seconds
weight 2 # add 2 points of prio if OK
}
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
interface eth0
state MASTER
virtual_router_id 72
priority 101 # 101 on master, 100 on backup
virtual_ipaddress {
10.100.2.72
}
track_script {
chk_pgpool
}
}