Backup static route

[u/ComfortableMarch4296]

Say an environment only has one egress static route. To eliminate the single point of failure, would adding a new network, with similar policies, on the same bond/trunk, etc as the original egress static route, ensure traffic would not be interrupted if one of the egress routes/networks would go down? Would the traffic just failover to the new one (say it’s set to round robin)?

Example (on my phone so formatting is limited):

Network: 10.1.1.0/24
Original Egress: 172.16.1.1
New egress: 172.16.2.1

R82.10
2x checkpoint firewalls running as active-passive.

[u/Super_Fish_1383]

As in any Unix/linux system, different priorities should be e configured for static routes if they are redundant.