Re: [Xen-users] network-bridge script and the ip route list command

["Jerry Amundson" <jamundso@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/29/06, Christopher G. Stach II <cgs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hop count is a path cost.
No, not really. 10 high speed hops, versus 1 over 56K modem. Hmm?

> You can certainly have more than one default route.  If you have one
> with a higher cost, it won't be used if the lower cost route is available.
Well, maybe. There's more the one variable to that decision.

> Why would metrics not be used for routing in the kernel?  That would
> more or less castrate Linux as a an IP router.  What changeset did this
> happen in?
"Metric" plays a minor part in advanced routing. Google'ing can
provide more on it ...

jerry

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