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Subject: Re: route metric
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:21:09PM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> there used to be patches floating around for 4.x that would allow a kind
> of metric, but IIRC you couldn't use two (or more) same-metric routes
> for per-packet balancing, rather the metric would be degraded for each
> packet that was forwarded to a particular destination (it's been a while
> since I looked, so I may be all wet on this).

We need to retool the PF_ROUTE ABI before we can do this.
This task should be on the 'Google Summer of Code' laundry list shortly.

BMS