On 8/31/19, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> you can not have two default gateways. >> >> You can, but if both have the same metric the chances are pretty good >> you're going to have weird network problems. I've got different >> metrics & haven't noticed any problems: >> root@hpg60:~# route >> Kernel IP routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use >> Iface >> default 10.10.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 >> enp1s0 >> default 10.10.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0 >> wls1 >> 10.10.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 100 0 0 >> enp1s0 >> 10.10.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 600 0 0 >> wls1 >> link-local 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 >> wls1 root@hpg60:~# v >> >> Wireless is convenient, ethernet is much faster, so I've got the >> ethernet interface configured with the better metric. <.. snip ..> >> Lee > > OK, agree but it goes to deep down in the technics, but true. The lower > metric has precedence. IT would be really better to specify what exactly > goes over which network.
Why? If I had something like 10.10.11.0/24 connected to the wireless router I can see adding a static route so the laptop goes directly to the wlan default gateway instead of the ethernet default gateway (+ maybe getting a redirect) & then to the wlan router to the destination. But other than that.. I'm missing why you think it'd be better to specify exactly what goes where. Lee
