More that one static routes

[bapatsubodh]

Hi,

When we have more that one sttaic routes for the same network which one will router will use to route the packet ?

For example

ip route Network_A / 24 172.30.9.1

ip route Network_A / 24 10.9.9.1

Secondly if first link is down ( 172.30.9.1) will router automatically route packets to second route.

If for second route administrative distance is given ( say 200 ) will router route the data on second route ?

Thankx in advance

Subodh

[ankbhasi]

HI Subodh,

In this scenario where you have 2 static route to same destnation/mask with same AD router will do the load balancing and if any link goes down all packtes will automatically get routed from other static route.

If you manually configure the AD for second route to 200 all packtes will move out via first static route only and once the first route goes down then the packtes will start moving ot via second route.

So in your first scenario where AD is same you will get load balancing as well as redundancy and in your second scenario where you have different AD you will get rdundancy but not load balancing.

HTH

Ankur