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* [PATCH] man: ip-route.8: Mention that lower metric means higher priority
@ 2017-06-21 19:59 Lukas Braun
  2017-06-27 23:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lukas Braun @ 2017-06-21 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev, Lukas Braun

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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