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  question about preference and metric in "ip route" command dshwatrz@gmail.com - 2013-06-25 08:49 -0700
    Re: question about preference and metric in "ip route" command Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2013-06-29 01:00 +0200

#2222 — question about preference and metric in "ip route" command

Hello,

Any ideas - is there a difference between preference and metric:

ip route add 1.2.3.4 via 192.168.2.1  preference 6
ip route add 1.2.3.5 via 192.168.2.1  metric 2 preference 8

It seems that in the second case, running "metric 2 preference 8" seems to override the 2 with 8, and in fact the metric and  preference are synonyms.
Or am I wrong ? 

ip route show:
gives:
1.2.3.4 via 192.168.2.1 dev eth1  metric 6
1.2.3.5 via 192.168.2.1 dev eth1  metric 8

regards,
David

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#2231

Hello,

dshwatrz@gmail.com a écrit :
> 
> Any ideas - is there a difference between preference and metric:

No, according to the ip(8) man page.

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