Hi Espen - thanks for the response. It's becoming evident that I didn't include 
enough information first up. 

I'm not planning to run full tables, just default announcement from provider if 
we can. 

EDIT: I clicked save earlier not send. I've since found out that removing the 
"<defaultgw/>" line using viconfig works. The item is still marked as 
"(default)", but as long as you don't edit the router in question, the OS 
doesn't install the route. Editing the router ends up setting a default route 
again. 

Problem no more. 

Cheers, 

Shannon 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannongernyi 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Espen Johansen" <[email protected]> 
To: "pfSense support and discussion" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, 10 March, 2015 11:35:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [pfSense] Have you set up a system with "no" default route? 



Are you going to load a full internet BGP routing table? Is that why you do not 
want a default? Remember that even if you have a default route any route that 
is more specific will take preference. I dont see the problem? And if you want 
to prevent any unknown IP destination being routed to your uplink providers I 
guess you can set a default gw that is part of a unrouted vlan with a bogus ip. 
That way all unknown traffic is routed to a unreachable destination. 

HTH. 

Brgds, Espen 
10. mars 2015 13:21 skrev "Shannon Gernyi" < [email protected] >: 



Hi Mark - this is exactly what I'm seeing - and it would be fine if there were 
a way to not set a static default. 

Unfortunately, when unchecking the "Default gateway" box in the system> routing 
menu, this selection isn't honoured. 

Cheers, 

Shannon 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannongernyi 


From: "Mark Tinka" < [email protected] > 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Tuesday, 10 March, 2015 10:19:30 PM 
Subject: Re: [pfSense] Have you set up a system with "no" default route? 



On 10/Mar/15 10:21, Shannon Gernyi wrote: 

<blockquote>

Hi Guys, 

First time poster to the list - I've spent some time searching without too much 
luck. Could be ambiguity in my search queries. 

I'm putting out some new firewalls shortly, and like many already in place, 
I'll be using openBGPd to interface with our provider. 

I'd like to also make use of BGP for internal failover to an alternate route, 
however, it's become evident that it's not within design to be able to have no 
"default router" selected as a static route. This is causing issues as we 
receive a default announcement from our providers, and I'd also like to use 
default announcements for alternate paths, etc, however openBGPd doesn't seem 
to want to override the already configured static route. 

Have you come up against this, and if so, what hackery did you do to work 
around it? 



I haven't used OpenBGPd, but in general routing, static routing trumps dynamic 
routing on a well-engineered platform. This could be what you're seeing. 

Mark. 

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