[PATCH] ip route metric

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Attatched patch lets you use the "metric" keyword when adding routes.
>Useful for udhcp scripts:
>
>metric=0
>for gw in $router; do
>	ip route add default via $gw dev $interface metric $metric
>	metric=$(( $metric + 1 ))
>done

sounds good, please resend with updated usage.h, too.
TIA,
>
>-nc
>

>Index: networking/libiproute/iproute.c
>===================================================================
>--- networking/libiproute/iproute.c	(revision 23582)
>+++ networking/libiproute/iproute.c	(working copy)
>@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@
> {
> 	static const char keywords[] ALIGN1 =
> 		"src\0""via\0""mtu\0""lock\0""protocol\0"USE_FEATURE_IP_RULE("table\0")
>-		"dev\0""oif\0""to\0";
>+		"dev\0""oif\0""to\0""metric\0";
> 	enum {
> 		ARG_src,
> 		ARG_via,
>@@ -300,7 +300,8 @@
> USE_FEATURE_IP_RULE(ARG_table,)
> 		ARG_dev,
> 		ARG_oif,
>-		ARG_to
>+		ARG_to,
>+		ARG_metric,
> 	};
> 	enum {
> 		gw_ok = 1 << 0,
>@@ -387,6 +388,12 @@
> 		} else if (arg == ARG_dev || arg == ARG_oif) {
> 			NEXT_ARG();
> 			d = *argv;
>+		} else if (arg == ARG_metric) {
>+			uint32_t metric;
>+			NEXT_ARG();
>+			if (get_u32(&metric, *argv, 0))
>+				invarg(*argv, "metric");
>+			addattr32(&req.n, sizeof(req), RTA_PRIORITY, metric);
> 		} else {
> 			int type;
> 			inet_prefix dst;

>_______________________________________________
>busybox mailing list
>busybox at busybox.net
>http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox