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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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