[CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

Sun Dec 18 11:46:46 UTC 2011
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

Vreme: 12/18/2011 07:57 AM, Mike Burger piše:
>
> Although, thinking back, you've made a very similar point to mine:
>
> That the standard of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yy via zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz style of
> entry, invoking the "ip" command, is still the "newer" way of doing it,
> while the parameter-per-line method you noted above, just like putting the
> data into the ifcfg-ethX and the network files, is an older way of doing
> so.
>

Depends on how old ip command in route-ethX is. If it is back from 2.4 
kernel????

I will not bother to research, and I did not say it was older or newer, 
just that there is such convention.

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