We have two Vyata router that are operating in HA using VRRP. These two are connected to a Stacked Switch.
We placed a firewall (Bridge Mode) between the switches and the Vyata routers but upon inspection it seems both have became Active that causes a split brain.
As we have limited downtime allowed, we rollback to the original connection but the two routers are still active. In order to fix the issue we have to reboot one of the routers. Is this expected behavior for this as there is no preempt in the configuration on the VRRP?
Additionally one of the links involved in the VRRP is in fault state for Router 1 but Master on Router 2. Any information on how to fix this?
Thank you. I appreciate your assistance as the old IT admin resigned without any turnover and this is my first time handling a Vyatta router. Thank you
Hi @XilefSeiei - Sorry but this isn’t support for Vyatta routers.
This is for Vyos, a platform that has its roots in the old Vyatta software but was forked many, many years ago.
I would attempt to restart VRRP (keepalived) on the affected host, but I’ve not idea if Vyatta original supports doing such a thing.
If you’ve just mis-typed and you meant Vyos, you could try restart vrrp and see if that helps…
I see. According to the document that I found, what we are using are Vyatta routers. I’ll try restarting it once we are allowed to inline the firewall again.
Alternatively, I might have to duplicate the vm on a laboratory and test it. Thank you
Just 2 cent - if both the members are active in that case vrrp multicast packets are not being received by either member hence they can not decide the priority. Best way is to capture the packets on each interface and verify for host 224.0.0.18