Hello,

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:02:29 +0200
Robert Millan <r...@debian.org> wrote:

> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD provides two route
> implementations, /lib/freebsd/route which is the FreeBSD version of
> route, and /sbin/route which is a shell wrapper that attempts to
> provide a Linux-like CLI.

> As the /sbin/route wrapper is very incomplete / unreliable, and
> applications tend to expect /sbin/route to provide FreeBSD CLI more
> often than not, in the near future we're going to install FreeBSD
> route into /sbin/route (and remove the wrapper or put it elsewhere).
> See:
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/10/msg00242.html

> Attached patch adjusts ifupdown to use FreeBSD route CLI when running
> on GNU/kFreeBSD, and to use /lib/freebsd/route instead
> of /sbin/route.  The latter is meant to be temporary and allow us to
> do this switch without causing any breakage.

Robert, ifupdown 0.7 already includes some support for kFreeBSD, but it
doesn't use FreeBSD route yet.

After reading a manual page on FreeBSD route I don't see how to
implement the equivalent of metric option that Linux route implements.

Can you help me with that?

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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