I was setting up HAPRoxy load balancer with a failover on my machine(X.X.X.106). I see the floating IP assigned to it is (Y.Y.Y.191). However I don’t see it in the list of IPs listed using ip a or ifconfig due to which I am unable to bind the floating IP address to my HAProxy load balancer.
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-blr1-01:~# ip a
floating ip address not prsent.
Although i am able to ssh using the floating IP address
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Hello,
For this you can use the Droplet’s anchor IP instead as described here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/floating-ips/how-to/find-anchor-ips/
The “anchor IP” is the local private IP address that the floating IP will bind to when attached to a DigitalOcean server. It is simply an alias for the regular eth0 address, implemented at the hypervisor level.
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
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