route-map statements with failover

[philstraton]

I have 2 WAN connections (different ISP's) attached to the FastE ports of a ubr 7100. The router uses route-map statements with the next-hop IP address set according to the least-cost path. I'm not running a routing protocol. Consequently, there's no failover and no load balancing.

I have used static routes, but not route-map statements. Would there be any difference in implementing EIGRP on the router using route-map statements than there would be if the router were using statics?

Could someone provide me with a link to documentation or a how-to that addresss this situation?

[mchin345]

To acheive failover using route maps you could define two statements in the route map one pointing to the first preferred route and the next pointing to the backup route. This is because the route maps are checked in a sequential order. So when a packet comes in it is matched against the first route-map statement. If thefirst path is not available it will check the next route map statement and if the backup route is available then the packet will be routed over the backup route. Thus failover can be achieved.Answering your second question there will not be any effect even if a routing protocol is used when PBR (policy based routing using route-maps) is enabled. Because when the next hop is given with the route-map irrespective of the path chosen by routing protocol the nexthop specified by the route map statement will be used.