[Babel-users] kernel-priority (was: Config file syntax changes)

[Dave Taht]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek
<jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>> >>   option kernel-priority 42
>
>> Incidentally can I ask what this means?
>
> It sets the priority field of the route entries installed by Babel.
> That's the prio field in "ip route add... prio 42".  It doesn't do
> anything at the data plane, it only tells the kernel which route to
> choose if there are multiple routes for the same destination, somewhat
> like Cisco's "Administrative distance".

Got it. I guess a name that works better from my initial confusion
would be route-priority...

>
> Think running two routing daemons (or a routing daemon and dhcp) on
> the same node, and telling the kernel which default route to actually
> use.

Yep. But why limit yourself to only using 1?

>
> -- Juliusz



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