Comment 13 for bug 1800159

I agree that the workaround isn't sufficient and this should really work out of the box, so I've added this to the server team's backlog. But since it is reported fixed in Bionic and a workaround is available for Xenial, I'm prioritising other work over this bug. If someone can figure out and provide a patch, we'll help you get it landed. Otherwise, I expect this bug to remain inactive for a while, but hopefully we can get to it the next time someone from the server team tries to clear out some of the bugs open against keepalived.