OpenVPN active/active cluster

Code snippets are for Gentoo systems but it should be easy to adapt this for other systems

This is a small howto explaining how to run a active/active Cluster (keeplaived) setup with OpenVPN. The active/active reflects that both cluster nodes run the same OpenVPN instance. In server mode this setup leads to routing problems as both nodes have the tunnel route added during startup (not after connect). This results in routing trouble as i needed the passive node to access the VPN tunnel via the active node. This is how i solved it:
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HA Linux Router

This howto describes the setup of a HA Linux router based on Gentoo and Keepalived. I’m writing this because there’s not really a good documentation on this topic so far. At least as i searched for it.

Requirement

The intended router requires this config and tools:

Kernel with activcated VLAN support(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y) Keepalived installed vconfig . . . → Read More: HA Linux Router