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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. ... 
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> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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