Rick

Thanks for replying to my question. What my initial thought would be is to just use default routes with different metrics based on what T1 i want as my primary. With that said it was just brought to my attention to be a little more complicated than that now. The new proposed solution from my EXECS is to have Circuit 1 dedicated as the primary to a single host but if that circuit fails to use Circuit 2. Then Circuit 2 will be dedicated to all traffic not coming from the single host but if this circuit fails to use Circuit 1. These circuits are point 2 points between HQ and branch office. I am thinking that by using poicy based routing and default route metrics that i can still get this accomplished. Does this sound correct?

The routers will be running EIGRP with the exception of the default routes.

Brian

Yes that sounds correct. In fact that is pretty much what I thought I was describing in my first response and what I thought you were asking for in your original post.

If you are running EIGRP then you want to be sure that EIGRP is running over both circuit 1 and circuit 2. If circuit 2 is to be primary for most traffic you want it to have the better metric. The easy way is to increase the delay metric on circuit 1 (you will need to do it on both ends of the circuit). When you do this EIGRP will use circuit 2 as preferred route but will fail over to circuit 1 if circuit 2 fails.

After you get the routing working the way that you want you can configure Policy Based Routing. Configure an access list which will permit traffic to or from the specific host. Then configure a route map which will use the access list to identify the traffic and will use a set (set interface or set next-hop) to direct traffic over circuit 1. The nice thing about PBR is that if circuit 1 fails and PBR can not use it, then the traffic from the specific host will use normal routing and go over circuit 2.

HTH

Rick