Routing

Hi,

We have two ADSL links attached to our Juniper SSG5 and I'm looking at using Policy Based Routing to push all traffic for a specific website out of one ADSL link and all other external traffic out of the other (see attached picture).  I think I've got my head around setting up the PBR but I have a question about how to setup the default routes.  Currently both ADSL connections are attached to the firewall and they have identical metrics and preferences; if I don't want any traffic apart from that which is destined for www.website.com to go out of 1.1.1.1 how should I setup the default routes?  Would it be as simple as changing the metric to 2 for 1.1.1.1 and leaving the metric as 1 for 2.2.2.2?

Edit - I've been having a think about this, should I just remove the default route for 1.1.1.1 and let the PBR do the work instead?  Please forgive my ignorance but I'm relatively new to JunOS.

Thanks for any help,

Ben.

Not sure why you would need PBR for this? (As long as I am reading it correctly of course). If you just had a static route on the Juniper for the web site you want out of Ethernet0/1 and your default out the other interface then that would cover it all. PBR is mainly used for source IP based routing, so if you only wanted traffic from a certain IP on your LAN to go out one DSL circuit then PBR would be needed.

Regards,

Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply, I think you're absolutely right.  The reason I started down the PBR idea was that I was going to use source IP but between the LAN and the Juniper firewall we have a Proxy server which NATs the internal IPs so I change it to destination and as you rightly say it will be much simpler to just use a static route.

Thanks again, I think you've saved me a lot of time!

Cheers,

Ben.