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Setting two default gateways towards 2 different ISPs
Hi You can only configure the Internet connection with 1 default gateway. I have created a network in front of the Netgear router connecting to Internet across this segment. In the segment I putt...
Strange it got mis-posted; selected the right product and model... Hope indeed they can move it.
Static routes are indeed static this is where you reply on RIP or OSPF to understand which route is available or not. This also requires cost-based routing which you basically guide with the metric value in the route assuring that the routing proticol preferes one over the other but still has en existing route in the case one fails.
This is by the way not that dissimilar to a laptop begin connected by wire and WiFi to the same subnet; you'll see multiple routes to the same network but with a different metric because most operating systems prefer wired over wireless.
McDoes wrote:
This is by the way not that dissimilar to a laptop begin connected by wire and WiFi to the same subnet; you'll see multiple routes to the same network but with a different metric because most operating systems prefer wired over wireless.
As I tried to explain above, one difference is that the laptop is using two different physical interfaces, and knows when one of them is disconnected.
I don't believe you have control over the route metrics in the R8000 anyway, and if I'm right on that this is likely all academic anyway.
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