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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 02:59:04 +0100
To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>,
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From: "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" <drwilco@drwilco.net>
Subject: Re: How can I give one route priority over the other route ?
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At 12:42 4-3-2002 +1100, Brendan Kosowski wrote:
>In situations where there are 2 routes in your routing table that apply to
>a given destination IP address, how do you give one route priority over
>the other ?

The one with the widest netmask is used.

So if you have both 10.0.0.0/8 and 10.42.69.0/24 in your routing table and 
for instance a packet needs to go to 10.42.69.13 the latter is used.

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