Two similar kernel routes with different metrics on bird 1.6.4

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:48:11PM +0300, Andrew wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have two default kernel routes with different metrics (for failover, when
> first gateway becomes unreachable - all traffic is switched to second gw). I
> want to pipe it to other kernel table to gracefully handle connections to
> second IP. Unfortunatelly, I can't force bird to learn route with higher
> metric - bird just ignores it.
> 
> Option 'merge paths' does nothing in that case. Import filter doesn't help -
> it seems like route is dropped somewhere in protocol, before passing to
> filter.
> 
> How can I force bird to learn route with higher metric?

Hi

That is unfortunately not supported. Only one route per network can
be imported.

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