From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 09:39:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01209 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rodan.UU.NET (rodan.UU.NET [153.39.130.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01199 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from triryche.uu.net by rodan.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: triryche.UU.NET [153.39.247.129]) id QQasni05471; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:39:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by triryche.uu.net (leaf) id QQasni01337; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:39:42 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 12:39:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Mansfield" Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606031440.QAA05790@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jun 3, 96 04:40:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > < 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. Metrics can be quite useful, however requiring one is not. I would be worried had it not allowed them, but I personally like not having to add one. Steve Mansfield |The captain frowned. "It's a funny thing," he said, "but smm@uunet.uu.net |why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have |the best places to go when they die?" |Small Gods - Terry Pratchett