Gateway group with two Tier 1 IPv6 gateways only shows a single default route with netstat -rnW6
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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.
I have defined the default IPv6 gateway to use this gateway group:
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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