Prioritising default routes

Ondrej Zajicek santiago at crfreenet.org
Tue Mar 25 22:11:38 CET 2014


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:49:29PM +1300, Michael Ludvig wrote:
> Hi
>
> Short version: Can I assign different priorities (metrics?) to the same  
> route inserted by Bird into different routing tables?


> My idea is to advertise a default route over all the uplinks and for the  
> LAN routing table use them in this order of preference:
> 1. ADSL (OSPF), 2. SDSL (BGP), 3. one of the tunnels (unlikely if both  
> physical links are down)
> For DMZ routing table do this order:
> 1. SDSL (BGP), 2. tunnel over ADSL (OSPF), 3. plain ADSL (OSPF)
>
> I know I can manage different routing tables from Bird but how do I  
> assign different priorities (metrics?) for the same route going into  
> different tables?

Hi

Perhaps just changing route attribute 'preference' in pipe filters.

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