On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:05:04 pm sanga collins wrote: > You can only have one default route statement in any > network setup.
Actually, that isn't true. Multiple routes to the same destination are completely valid, including toward 0/0. The default action of a router will be to load balance traffic across multiple equal-cost paths (hence the term, ECMP - equal-cost multi-path). Of course, there are limitations in special environments, e.g., NAT's when directing traffic off-net, if IP addresses accessing the Internet don't belong to you but you connect to different ISP's, strange bugs in some routing code, e.t.c. However, the routing paradigm remains true, as not all traffic is Internet-bound. Cheers, Mark.
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