Multiple default gateways on Linux

Suppose you have a Linux machine doing IP forwarding (net.ipv4.ip_forward=1).

Depending on the incoming traffic, you might want to forward the packets to different gateways.

With just one gateway, you can simply add (or replace) the default gateway:
ip route add default via x.x.x.x

If you want to set a default gateway for a specific (incoming) IP range, you can add a custom routing table, using iproute2:

• echo 200 custom >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
• ip rule add from 10.1.2.0/24 table custom
• ip route add default via y.y.y.y table custom
• ip route flush cache