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To: Motonori Shindou <T0682740@pmail.tepco.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: route command w/o metrics (why?) 
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From: bmah@cs.berkeley.edu (Bruce A. Mah)
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Motonori Shindou writes:

> > 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.

[snip]

> In general, does the system that requires metric paramter in "route add" 
> command keep that metric in the kernel?

I believe that it does, but I'm sure that there's someone else reading 
this with a more definitive answer.

Bruce.