Make keepalived play nicely with netplan/ systemd-network

TL;DR: Use use_vmac directive in keepalived when using multicast and your carrier allows multiple MAC addresses per interface. If that’s not an option, migrate away from netplan/systemd-networkd, e.g. to ifupdown.
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Dualstack multiple IP addresses with systemd-networkd

I’m using systemd-networkd on Archlinux on one of my servers to configure the static IP addresses. While this seems pretty straight-forward, there’s a big issue that you can bump into when trying to configure multiple IP addresses. As this took me some time to figure out and it’s not well documented, I decided to leave a blog post for future me (and possibly others).
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