Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] metric: Enable support for route metric on FreeBSD

Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:29:23 +0330

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Hi,

I haven't contributed to this project before, and I followed the 
CONTRIBUTING.rst guide.

I'd like to help move this patch forward. Did I miss anything in the 
process, or is there anything else I should do on my side to assist?

Thank you.

On 8/5/26 17:45, Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 8/5/26 16:16, Gert Doering wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 02:06:33PM +0330, Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani 
>> wrote:
>>> The route metric has been available since FreeBSD version 1600019.
>>
>> Is there some documentation what this does?  As in, can you now install
>> two routes for the same prefix, with different metrics, and the one
>> with the "lowest metric wins"?
> 
> Yes, the route(8) manual is updated.
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi? 
> query=route&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-current
> 
> To answer your question:
> ```
> % mdo route -n4 add -net 172.31.0.0/16 -gateway 192.168.1.1 -metric 10
> add net 172.31.0.0: gateway 192.168.1.1
> % mdo route -n4 add -net 172.31.0.0/16 -gateway 192.168.1.2 -metric 1
> add net 172.31.0.0: gateway 192.168.1.2
> % netstat -rn4W | grep 172.31.0.0
> 172.31.0.0/16 192.168.1.1 UGS 0 1500 bridge0 10
> 172.31.0.0/16 192.168.1.2 UGS 0 1500 bridge0  1
> % route -n4 get 172.31.0.0
>       route to: 172.31.0.0
>    destination: 172.31.0.0
>           mask: 255.255.0.0
>        gateway: 192.168.1.2
> ...
> ```
> 
>>
>> gert
> 
> 
> 
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