Two gateways in the same subnet

Hey, guys. I've installed a router with openwrt inside my network. I would like to configure two different access points (wlan), with different SSID, to connect to the internet through two different providers as well. In short, I have two gateways on the same network. I am not able to make the configuration to make the direction to the gateways. Always, the last interface I configure is the default gateway. And both connections go out through that same gateway.

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You'll need a load balancer, or similar, if you want to use them simultaneously.

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If you're trying to send specific traffic through a specific gateway based on conditions of your choosing, your magic Google search terms are "policy based routing".

See https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/routing/pbr for starters.

Edit: Ah. If you're trying to load-balance or bond, then the previous respondents' replies might be more suitable than this one. Still PBR might be of interest depending on your needs.

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Thanks for the answers.
In fact, I wouldn't want to do a balance or failover. Just fix gateway 1 to wlan1 and gateway 2 to wlan2.

This would be policy based routing, then.

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Or set the clients to use different GWs based on custom settings in the DHCP, on MAC address basis or interface.

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