Bug 193047

Summary: Enhancement - allow dhclient to specify a METRIC for gateways
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks>
Component: dhcpAssignee: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
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Patch to support per-interface METRIC= for dhcp. none

Description Valdis Kletnieks 2006-05-24 19:36:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
Sometimes, a system administrator knows positively that a given interface has a
better or worse preference as a default route.  For instance, my laptop has a
wireless card, and 2 onboard ethernet, and a docking station ethernet.  Thus,
the desired effect is that we want any hard-wired interface to get a default
route, and a wireless to get a default route - at a higher metric.  That way, if
the wireless is the only connection, it will take the default, but if a wired
interface comes up as well, that will take the load.

The attached patch allows the sysadmin to add a 'METRIC=n' to the interface's
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-foo file, to manually configure the
preference for the interface.

This functionality is already supported by 'ifup' for non-DHCP interfaces.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dhclient-3.0.4-8

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Comment 1 Valdis Kletnieks 2006-05-24 19:36:36 UTC 
Created attachment 129961 [details]
Patch to support per-interface METRIC= for dhcp.
Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2006-05-27 00:08:30 UTC 
Thanks - patch applied in dhcp-3.0.4-10, in FC-6 / rawhide-2006-05-27 .