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From: Sandro Dentella <sandro@e-den.it>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:12:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Route policy preference value
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:00:30PM +0800, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> 
> Assuming if I have rules matching the same packet,
> the one chosen is the lower preference value or
> the high ?
> 
> For example 
> 
> # ip rule list
> 
> ....
> 100 from  192.168.1.0/24 lookup main
> 200 from all fwmark 5 lookup first
> .....
> 

for what I have understood is the lower, beware as pointed out to me from
Martin Brown that failing a matching *route* from rule 100 it will look for
the route in next matching *rule*. In my case I didn't defined default
route, but packets passed since arrived to get the one defined in main
table.

sandro
*:-)
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