On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 09:25:39PM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote:

> Yes, this is an older version of ifupdown, but the newer package also
> appears to lack this.
> 
> ifupdown lacks any method to change the metric of the route that is
> added by default when an address and netmask are specified.  If a system
> has multiple interfaces to one network, one may wish to change the metric
> for even a directly connected network.

You're right. I'll try to think of a way to add this in a nice way. I
don't know if overloading the current "metric" keyword to apply to both
the gateway and the netmask route will work for everyone.

> I would also suggest it would be useful to be able to tell ifupdown not
> to add the standard route just in case one is doing really whacky things.

Well, that's easy, just don't specify a netmask :)

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>

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