On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> option kernel-priority 42 > >> Incidentally can I ask what this means? > > It sets the priority field of the route entries installed by Babel. > That's the prio field in "ip route add... prio 42". It doesn't do > anything at the data plane, it only tells the kernel which route to > choose if there are multiple routes for the same destination, somewhat > like Cisco's "Administrative distance".
Got it. I guess a name that works better from my initial confusion would be route-priority... > > Think running two routing daemons (or a routing daemon and dhcp) on > the same node, and telling the kernel which default route to actually > use. Yep. But why limit yourself to only using 1? > > -- Juliusz -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
