Linux WILL allow you to configure multiple default routes, but this generally makes sense only if you have multiple interfaces, or you are running a routing protocol. On your end host, which appears from your
I don't think this is true either. It makes sense to have multiple default gateways even with one interface as you may want to do load balancing via 2 or more next hops or for redundancy purpose and has nothing to do with routing protocol as static default route is mostly being used for end nodes not running any routing protocols. The other thing is that doing routing the way the default gateway is on the different IP subnet then host even being on the same physical 'cable' impose significant performance degradation as for each packet there has to be done recursive route lookup plus arp-ing, so even Anders showed it's possible to make it work it's not the best practice. Martin
descriptions to have only a single interface, neither having multiple default routes nor running a routing protocol is necessary.
Regards, Jim
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