LinuxQuestions.org - keeplalived refuses to allow 3rd instance

I've beeb setting up keepalived/haproxy as a load balancer for our site.

If you keep it down to two load balancing instances it works just fine.
However, I was told to add a 3rd load balancer to the mix and
that adds a new wrinkle. I need to add a new keepalived instance and I
can't quite figure out how that's done.

It would seem to me to be an issue of the priorities as that is the
only thing I altered in the files. Initially, nodes A and B were set
to 101 and 100 respectively. I set node A to 102, node B to 101 and
node C to 100... keepalived restarts and the virtual IP is pingable.
But the website goes down! :(

SO then I tried Node A set to 101, node B to 100 and node C to 99.
Same thing, I restated keepalived and the site goes down, tho the
virtual IP remains pinagble and keepalived and haproxy are running.

here is a sample config file from my setup:

Code:

vrrp_instance VI_1 {

    state MASTER

    interface eth0

    virtual_router_id 51

    priority 99

    advert_int 1

    authentication {

        auth_type PASS

        auth_pass {SSHA}secret

    }

    virtual_ipaddress {

        192.168.1.200

    }

}

Does anyone know how to address this issue?