From: Lukas Braun <koomi@moshbit.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Braun <koomi@moshbit.net>
Subject: [PATCH] man: ip-route.8: Mention that lower metric means higher priority
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:59:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1498075185-19228-1-git-send-email-koomi@moshbit.net> (raw)
This is quite counter-intuitive when using the 'preference' keyword.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Braun <koomi@moshbit.net>
---
man/man8/ip-route.8.in | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
index c8eb38a..d74e2a8 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-route.8.in
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ from
.BI preference " NUMBER"
the preference value of the route.
.I NUMBER
-is an arbitrary 32bit number.
+is an arbitrary 32bit number, where routes with lower values are preferred.
.TP
.BI table " TABLEID"
--
2.1.4
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2017-06-21 19:59 Lukas Braun [this message]
2017-06-27 23:08 ` [PATCH] man: ip-route.8: Mention that lower metric means higher priority Stephen Hemminger
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