Greetings,
Route metric is a variable that a router uses to choose the best route to a destination. Depending on the routing protocol, the metric definition is different. What I'm trying to understand is how Linux defines the metric in the route output command. For example when a Fedora laptop has two active interfaces, Ethernet and wifi, the metric in route output, is set to 1 for Ethernet and 2 for WiFi. Reading the man page on the route command, it says the metric is defined as hop counts to a destination. Based on the above observation, this is incorrect or incomplete. It definitely include the hop count, but how fedora came up with 1 and 2. Could it be just used these number arbitrarily to indicate to IP, that the Ethernet interface is the preferred path to use to send traffic, because it's speed is faster and more reliable? Basically what I'm looking for is the definition of the metric defintion in Linux or Fedora. And if someone shed light on the windows definition that would be great. Rgrds, Alex
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