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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/mrouted/mrouted.8')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 17 deletions
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 |
