Two routers PORTIONS of the same subnet. OK ?

[bytebit2]

Two routers with their own external static public IP’s serving PORTIONS of the same internal subnet. Is that OK ? Any nasty ramifications ?
So router1’s external is xxx.xxx.xx.1 and two’s is xxx.xxx.xx.2. 1’s internal address block is 192.168.0.3 to 0.160 with a gateway of 0.2 and router 2’s internal block runs say from 0.161 to 0.250 using a gate way of 0.1
All machines on the 0 subnet need to see each other (and can); again ,any nasty problems in the future ?

 

[VinceWhirlwind]

Sounds like you are losing the benefits of DHCP by creating a more admin-intensive way of addressing your LAN hosts.

I guess I might personally think about hiding the routers behind some sort of load-balancing for the LAN, ensuring I got maximum usage out of each of the WAN links from my single internal LAN subnet.

I always get a but sus when I hear people saying that hosts "need to see each other".
Your PC can "see" Google, right?
So being on the same subnet as something else is not particularly relevant.

You could easily make this a bit more normal by having your hosts in two separate subnets, each homed on one of the routers, and the routers (in addition to their own default route to the internet) knowing a route to the other subnet via the other router.

Generally, those subnets would be separated by VLANs.