Re: Ipv6 and preferred_lft

Mark Schouten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.keepalived.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/29/2013 04:40 PM, Martinsson Patrik wrote:
> Well the problem with using the bindo-parameter is exactly that the setting is not applied system-wide. 
> Now you will have two different behaviours, one with traffic going through keepalived, and another one with "regular system traffic" (eg. ping). 
> 
> So what you will get doing it that way is a correct behaviour regarding keepalived's traffic, however the system traffic (eg. a ping) would still end up sending a packet with the src-address of the last added vip. 
> In my opinion that is even more wrong. 

I agree. I think that when you want the VIP-address to be the source of
traffic, you could distinguish that by setting a netmask other than
/128. Wouldn't that be a perfect solution? By default, a VIP is added as
/128 with preferred_lft 0, with a netmask it is added as a normal address..

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