Dual ISP - Will not activate dual default gateway routes

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Dual ISP - Will not activate dual default gateway routes

L1 Bithead

I just installed a firewall for a customer last night and it absolutely refuses to activate the default route for both ISPs in the virtual router.  Only 1 will go active at a time.  The intent is to just use route monitoring and use the primary ISP unless it goes down.

 

The primary ISP static default route is created with a route monitor.

The backup ISP is DHCP and the route is auto created with a metric of 20 and shouldn't be used unless the primary fails.

 

What I am seeing in the routing table is a single default route.  The 2nd one never activates.  Even if I enabled it for ECMP only one would go active at a time.

 

I have done several in this manner and have never encountered this before.  Any thoughts?

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L1 Bithead

Turns out this was expected behavior.  I've been so used to using ECMP and expecting both routes to be alive.

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L1 Bithead

Turns out this was expected behavior.  I've been so used to using ECMP and expecting both routes to be alive.

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