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| author | Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <pouria@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-04-14 07:49:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <pouria@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-05-15 21:29:49 +0000 |
| commit | 355989b21712cbb7173cbec4a036c541e6f08c0e (patch) | |
| tree | c2d814ad48e96b9c80bde7083da3a9e2dca74524 | |
| parent | 0a2f7683bf0cbd57d7cdba0713a3e30b24cbf9b4 (diff) | |
route.8: Describe weight modifier
Describe `-weight` argument in the route manual.
Reviewed by: glebius, ziaee
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56246
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/route/route.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/route/route.8 b/sbin/route/route.8 index 572781ef59c8..5cb16120c8d8 100644 --- a/sbin/route/route.8 +++ b/sbin/route/route.8 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd November 12, 2024 +.Dd May 16, 2026 .Dt ROUTE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -297,6 +297,17 @@ Note that the qualifier works only for .Dv AF_INET6 address family. .Pp +For +.Li ECMP +routes, the +.Fl weight +modifier can be used to influence nexthop selection. +For example, a destination with two nexthops defined as +.Dq Fl gateway Ar 3fff::1 Fl weight Ar 100 +and +.Dq Fl gateway Ar 3fff::2 Fl weight Ar 200 +will make the nexthop 3fff::2 twice as likely to be chosen as 3fff::1. +.Pp Routes have associated flags which influence operation of the protocols when sending to destinations matched by the routes. These flags may be set (or sometimes cleared) |