From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 19:32:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06265 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tepcogw.tepco.co.jp (tepcogw.tepco.co.jp [202.32.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06255 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:32:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tepcofw3.tepco.co.jp (tepcofw3.tepco.co.jp [202.32.50.7]) by tepcogw.tepco.co.jp (8.7.5/3.4W4-tepcogw) with ESMTP id LAA05175; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:31:56 +0900 (JST) Received: from h1009051.smtpgw.tepco.co.jp (smtpgw [130.0.9.51]) by tepcofw3.tepco.co.jp (8.7.5/3.4W4-tepcofw3) with SMTP id LAA24162; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:31:16 +0900 (JST) Received: from j1102041 (h1009043) by h1009051.smtpgw.tepco.co.jp (4.1/6.4J.6) id AA24456; Tue, 4 Jun 96 11:31:17 JST Received: from j1101044 by j1102041 (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA68494; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:31:42 +0900 Received: from loopback by j1101044.pmail.tepco.co.jp (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA38820; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 11:32:08 +0900 Received: by pmail.tepco.co.jp (ATSON-1) ; 4 Jun 96 11:32:08 JST Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) In-Reply-To: <199606031529.IAA27560@premise.CS.Berkeley.EDU> From: Motonori Shindou X-From: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0pGIyEhO3E3MRsoSg==?= Date: 4 Jun 96 11:32:54 JST To: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Lines: 16 Message-Id: <31B3A056.5AF0.002@pmail.tepco.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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