Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 11:56:35 -0700 From: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu (Bruce A. Mah) To: Motonori Shindou <T0682740@pmail.tepco.co.jp> Cc: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) Message-ID: <199606041856.LAA03405@premise.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 Jun 1996 11:32:54 %2B0200." <31B3A056.5AF0.002@pmail.tepco.co.jp>
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Motonori Shindou writes: > > As a historical point, older BSD versions used to use the metric to > > distinguish between routes to directly-attached networks and routes > > through gateways. I always wondered why it couldn't figure this out > > from the list of interfaces in kernel. [snip] > In general, does the system that requires metric paramter in "route add" > command keep that metric in the kernel? I believe that it does, but I'm sure that there's someone else reading this with a more definitive answer. Bruce.
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