114514 – No exemple to assign a default metric to a default route

Bug 114514 - No exemple to assign a default metric to a default route

Summary: No exemple to assign a default metric to a default route

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Roy Marples (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-12-05 02:55 UTC by Aurélien Requiem
Modified:	2005-12-05 08:28 UTC (History)
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Description Aurélien Requiem 2005-12-05 02:55:12 UTC

in /etc/conf.d/net.exemple there's no exemple to assign a metric to the default
route. This is very usefull if you have more than one interface with both
default routes.

Here is a small exemple to add to the file:

routes_eth0=(
        "default via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx metric 0"
)

routes_eth1=(
        "default via yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy metric 1"
)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. have 2 nics
2. assign 2 default routes
3. try to ping outside both networks.

Actual Results:  
System has a lot of difficulties to route packets correctly.

Expected Results:  
Should access/ping/connect correctly to the remote host.

Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-05 08:28:21 UTC

baselayout-1.12 supports metric_eth0="1"