Re: OT: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:17:24PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 dev eth0 metric 1 > > > > Slightly off topic, but can anyone explain to me what the metric field > does - the man page is bit brief for my level of understand

Re: OT: Net-tools followup

2001-02-12 Thread David Purton
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 dev eth0 metric 1 > Slightly off topic, but can anyone explain to me what the metric field does - the man page is bit brief for my level of understanding in these things :) $ man route metric M set the metri