Why keepalived doesn't failover after network interface goes down?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

While testing failover of keepalived configuration with track_interface option:

track_interface {
        eth0 weight 3                          
    }

If we disable network interface via
# ifdown eth0
We can see, that failover doesn't happen even though tracked interface is down.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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