Despite the past changes, users seemed to get confused by the seemingly
contradictory relation of priority value and actual rule priority.
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc>
---
man/man8/ip-rule.8 | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
index 7de80f3e6db9f..a5c479811927f 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8
+++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8
@@ -95,7 +95,10 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a
.B selector
and an
.B action predicate.
-The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority. The selector
+The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority (note that lower number
+means higher priority, see the description of
+.I PREFERENCE
+below). The selector
of each rule is applied to {source address, destination address, incoming
interface, tos, fwmark} and, if the selector matches the packet,
the action is performed. The action predicate may return with success.
@@ -225,7 +228,8 @@ value to match.
.BI priority " PREFERENCE"
the priority of this rule.
.I PREFERENCE
-is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority. Each rule
+is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority, and rules get
+processed in order of increasing number. Each rule
should have an explicitly set
.I unique
priority value.
--
2.11.0
