Here is my scenario: i have this server with 2 nics, each one with different IPs, connected to differents routers.

Almost everything is configured whe way i need. Traffic coming from eth0 exits using eth0, traffic coming from eth1 exits using eth1. And there is a default gateway configured.

$route: default IP 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

With this configuration, the traffic generated in the server is going out using eth0 (lynx www.google.com for example).

The problem is: the Internet link from eth0 went down today. The traffic coming from eth1 was ok...no problem. But the traffic generated in the server was a problem...the default gateway was out...no access do the Internet anymore (no more lynx www.google.com)

So i added a new default gateway configuration, pointing to eth1. For 30 minutes i kept that way...2 default gateways, but just one was "working"...and everything was working just fine. But then i removed de eth0 gateway entry because, well, 2 default gateways is kind of weird.

My question: is there any problem on keeping these 2 default gateways, one for each? So i don´t need to do nothing when one link go down again?

$route: default IP1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 default IP2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1