On 30 Aug 1999, Jake Colman wrote:
> >>>>> "LAJ" == Lourdes A Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> LAJ> the route command used by diald includes metric information (highly
> LAJ> desirable and useful in kernel 2.0.x but unsupported in kernel
> LAJ> 2.2.x). Either live with the message or hack route.c to remove the
> LAJ> metric parameters.
>
>
> Any idea why the 2.2 series kernels dropped support for this?
Actually route metrics are still supported. It's _interface_
metrics that are no longer supported. Which is a pity if you
use something like routed (as opposed to gated) which has no
config file and you want to have it prefer one interface over
another. Apparently it's Right(tm) though :-(.
Mike
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