>>>>> "MJ" == Mike Jagdis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MJ> 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?
MJ> Actually route metrics are still supported. It's _interface_ metrics
MJ> that are no longer supported. Which is a pity if you use something
MJ> like routed (as opposed to gated) which has no config file and you
MJ> want to have it prefer one interface over another. Apparently it's
MJ> Right(tm) though :-(.
So a future diald update will stop trying to do this and, in the meantime, we
just safely ignore the error, right?
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