Summary
Highly available routers can be created and managed using the same router command set that was discussed in the previous chapter. The L3 agents are responsible for configuring the routers in a VRRP group, and the routers are left to elect the master router and implement their respective keepalived configuration.
While HA routers provide a level of redundancy over their standalone counterparts, they are not without their drawbacks. A single node hosting a master router is still a bottleneck for traffic traversing this router. In addition, if the network used for dedicated VRRP traffic between routers experiences a loss of connectivity, the routers can become split-brained, causing two or more routers to become master routers and potentially ...
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