The answer is yes, and then the real question starts. Asymmetric routing and silent drops punish anyone who treats the routing tables as one flat list.
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Can a Linux host have two default gateways? What actually breaks, and what is the right way to do multihoming?
The answer is yes, and then the real question starts. Asymmetric routing and silent drops punish anyone who treats the routing tables as one flat list.
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