Hi, Is it possible to use more than one default route? I believe yes. Any comments on them. If I use more than one, where will the trafficc be diverted from?
That's a good question. I was going to answer your other post, but did some tests which contradicted what I was going to say.
I originally thought if you had two default routes on the same metric, traffic would just go out the first one, however, when I tried this earlier, I started losing packets, so I can only assume the packets were going out the other route, and then getting lost. anyone comment on this ?
If you use the ip route tool to created multiple weighted or equalized default routes, you then use source-based routing to make sure that the traffic goes back out the same route it came in on.
(unless you're trying to be tricky with asymetrical routing)
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