Primary versus secondary route

[Richard McBride]

I am playing with W2K as a router. On our network we have a router (a.b.2.1)
which routes packets to a central chassis (a.b.1.1). Our default route is
a.b.2.1, and this is set in our DHCP.

I have created a new router, a.b.2.254. This is the W2K router. I would like
to set our DHCP up so that it chooses the new route first, and if it fails,
systems will choose the backup route.

How do I do this?

[Joe Mellon]

Hi there,

I know in the route table you can increase the hop count as the lowest will
be used first i.e.:

Route 1 : 192.168.100.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.168.100.1 Metric 1
Route 2 : 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 192.168.100.2 Metric 2

What the above would do is allways try route 1 first as the metric (Hop
Count) is lower.

Hope This Helps

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