Date: 4 Jun 96 11:32:54 JST From: Motonori Shindou <T0682740@pmail.tepco.co.jp> To: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) Message-ID: <31B3A056.5AF0.002@pmail.tepco.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <199606031529.IAA27560@premise.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Hello, > As a historical point, older BSD versions used to use the metric to > distinguish between routes to directly-attached networks and routes > through gateways. I always wondered why it couldn't figure this out > from the list of interfaces in kernel. Same here :-) In general, does the system that requires metric paramter in "route add" command keep that metric in the kernel? === Motonori Shindou
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