Re: Which one is chosen on multiple default gateway set?

From: Wei Huang <redacted>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:31:26 +0800

If multiple default gateways are set, which one will be chosen? And if
the chosen one is down, will others take over?

Yes.

It works sometime, but not most of the time. (example below) The
behavior is inconsistent.

The problem is that when a nexthop becomes unresponsive we need
to wait for an event to timeout the routing cache entry.

In 3.6.0-rc1 and later, this inconsistent behavior will happen less
often, because the routing cache has been removed so we will do the
full default route resolution on every route lookup.  The only problem
at that point is socket cached routes, those will still need to wait
for a timeout before the next default gateway will be tried.