Network Route/interface Priority

Hi there!

I have two NICs on my (7.1.4) unraid server.

The first is eth0 (br0), the motherboard's NIC, it is assigned an IP of 192.168.168.137 and dns via dhcp. This should be my main interface.

The second, eth1 (br1), is an Intel PCIE NIC, it is assigned an IP of 172.16.10.200 statically. This interface is for Docker containers.

Both interfaces work (server reachable via different IPs), as do all my containers, IP and DNS is great.

However all traffic is currently going through eth1, I've tried adjusting the route priorities in network preferences. I can set the priority to as low as 1 when I configure the interfaces,

however when I start up the Docker service a br1-shim interface is created in the 172 range with priority of 0, overriding my config.

I would like all my non-container traffic to go through eth0 only. and all container traffic should go through eth1 only. But I am clearly doing something wrong.

Can anyone advise how I might achieve my goal?

Here's the route tables:

Manually edited route table Before starting Docker service:

After starting Docker service:

Edited September 14, 2025Sep 14 by kharntiitar