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diff --git a/usr.sbin/mrouted/mrouted.8 b/usr.sbin/mrouted/mrouted.8
index 6c4c7bd..246139c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/mrouted/mrouted.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/mrouted/mrouted.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
'\"COPYRIGHT 1989 by The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.
-'\"$Id: mrouted.8,v 3.8 1995/11/29 22:37:21 fenner Rel $
+'\"$Id: mrouted.8,v 3.8.1.1 1996/11/10 22:16:52 fenner Exp $
.TH MROUTED 8
.UC 5
.SH NAME
@@ -112,19 +112,17 @@ configuration commands may be placed in
There are four types of configuration commands:
.nf
- phyint <local-addr> [disable] [metric <m>]
+ phyint <local-addr> [disable] [metric <m>] [advert_metric <m>]
[threshold <t>] [rate_limit <b>]
[boundary (<boundary-name>|<scoped-addr>/<mask-len>)]
[altnet <network>/<mask-len>]
- tunnel <local-addr> <remote-addr> [metric <m>]
+ tunnel <local-addr> <remote-addr> [metric <m>] [advert_metric <m>]
[threshold <t>] [rate_limit <b>]
[boundary (<boundary-name>|<scoped-addr>/<mask-len>)]
cache_lifetime <ct>
- pruning <off/on>
-
name <boundary-name> <scoped-addr>/<mask-len>
.fi
@@ -155,23 +153,11 @@ be replaced by a host name, if and only if the host name has a single
IP address associated with it.
The tunnel must be set
up in the mrouted.conf files of both routers before it can be used.
-'\"For backwards compatibility with older
-'\".IR mrouted s,
-'\"the srcrt keyword specifies
-'\"encapsulation using IP source routing.
.PP
The cache_lifetime is a value that determines the amount of time that a
cached multicast route stays in kernel before timing out. The value of this
entry should lie between 300 (5 min) and 86400 (1 day). It defaults to 300.
.PP
-The pruning <off/on> option is provided for
-.IR mrouted
-to act as a non-pruning router. It is also possible to start
-.IR mrouted
-in a non-pruning mode using the "-p" option on the command line. It is
-expected that a router would be configured in this manner for test
-purposes only. The default mode is pruning enabled.
-.PP
You may assign names to boundaries to make configuration easier with
the name keyword. The boundary option on phyint or tunnel commands
can accept either a name or a boundary.
@@ -183,6 +169,11 @@ because
.I mrouted
cannot route along paths with a sum of metrics greater
than 31.
+.PP
+The advert_metric is the "cost" associated with receiving a datagram
+on the given interface or tunnel; it may be used to influence the choice
+of routes. The advert_metric defaults to 0. Note that the effective
+metric of a link is one end's metric plus the other end's advert_metric.
.LP
The threshold is the minimum IP time-to-live required for a multicast datagram
to be forwarded to the given interface or tunnel. It is used to control the
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