We are in a large data center. Each firewall has it's own external network, we try to get them as different as possible. So each one is a different path. One VLAN has over 600 servers. manually load balancing the gateways is painful. Plus when I add a new firewall its a pain to go change 20-30 machines to use it. If the whole VLAN used one IP as it's gateway, and that device could round robin each connection to a different firewall, that woudl simplify everything tremendously. I would just add the new firewall to the list, instead of 20-30 servers. Plus, we have some machines that spin up 20 different processes, I would love for each process to have a different gateway, instead of all having to use one.
We have a full gigabit to the Internet, everything in our data center is gigabit.
Thanks, I am open to any suggestions if there's a better way to do it.