Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1996 16:40:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) Message-ID: <199606031440.QAA05790@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <9606031344.AA28071@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Mon, 03 Jun 1996 10:21:13 +0200, "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> said: > > > Just out of curiousity: Why does the BSD route command not require > > a metrics parameter? > > Why would it require one? What purpose would it serve? I don't know :-) Just was curious since others had it (Sun) for a long time and some even require it to be there - see my recent experience with a HP-UX where leaving it off (the metrics) lead to a missing (U)G flag in my default route. > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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