Routing
We also have the ability to connect two (or more) separate Direct Connect connections to our on-premises location. Now here, we need to make sure that we also configure the routing appropriately. In this case, both Direct Connect links have the same priority, so the only way to control the flow of traffic is to define the routes on the devices. The easiest way to configure high availability is to allow for dynamic routing across two or more Direct Connect links. When dynamic routing is enabled, the failover from one to another Direct Connect link can be done automatically. We can ensure this by enabling Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) on the devices connecting to the Direct Connect links.
However, dynamic routing does not ...
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