A manual default through wan1 has distance 10. After wan2 receives a DHCP lease with Retrieve default gateway enabled, a default through wan2 appears at distance 5. Why do fresh internet sessions prefer wan2?

Choose the single best answer.

A.DHCP reorders the firewall policies.
B.The latest route always wins, regardless of distance.
C.Its same-prefix default has lower distance.
D.DHCP routes always have a longer prefix than static routes.

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Its same-prefix default has lower distance.

Both paths cover /0, so the DHCP default at distance 5 beats the manual default at 10. DHCP does not turn the route into a more-specific destination prefix or reorder policies. This is a distance result, not a universal last-learned rule.

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