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Re: OT: Net-tools followup



On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 dev eth0 metric 1
> 

Slightly off topic, but can anyone explain to me what the metric field
does - the man page is bit brief for my level of understanding in these
things :)


$ man route

 metric M
              set  the metric field in the routing table (used by
              routing daemons) to M.



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