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    Gateway group with two Tier 1 IPv6 gateways only shows a single default route with netstat -rnW6

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      techstone
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      Hi,

      I have a pfSense cluster with each box connected to two gateways. I am using the following gateway group with two Tier 1 IPv6 gateways.

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      I have defined the default IPv6 gateway to use this gateway group:

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      When I look at the output of netstat -rnW6 I only see one default gateway though:

      Routing tables
      
      Internet6:
      Destination                       Gateway                       Flags       Use    Mtu    Netif Expire
      default                           2540:960:3000:4::1:1          UGS         549   1500  cxl0.10
      ::1                               link#8                        UH          699  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1876::/64                link#3                        U      26643467   1500     cxl0
      2001:623:1876::4                  link#3                        UHS           0  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1876::6                  link#3                        UHS           0  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1234:210::/64            link#47                       U             0   1500 lagg0.59
      2001:623:1234:210::2              link#47                       UHS           0  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1234:301f::/125          link#53                       U         78813   1500 lagg0.4001
      2001:623:1234:301f::1             link#53                       UHS           0  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1234:301f::2             link#53                       UHS           0  16384      lo0
      2001:623:1234:3020::/60           2001:623:1234:302f::6         UGS           0   1500 lagg0.4002
      2001:623:1234:302f::/125          link#50                       U      31054390   1500 lagg0.4002
      

      I expected to see two default routes, but I suspect I may have wrong expectations. I also observed that the traffic is only sent to the gateway in the routing table (i.e. there is no traffic spread accross the two defined Tier 1 gateways). If the gateway in the routing table goes down, it does eventually fail over to the other gateway however.

      What is the correct way for me to get traffic spread across the two gateways?

      Thanks,
      -Martin

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