Originally posted by: tpersoon

My output from lsattr -El inet0 looks like this:

....

Now I'm trying to decipher what each value behind route means. I'm guessing the following:

net                        Destination Type

-hopcount           ?

0                           Cost

"  "                         ?

0                          Weight

Default gw         ip address

 Is this correct and can someone help me with the ? values. Thanx!

Originally posted by: j.gann

it's documented in the manual under "chginet method":

route

Specifies the route. The format of the Value variable of the route attribute is: route = type, [args,], destination, gateway, [metric] .

The value of the type parameter can be net or host.

 

so your first 0 is the value of the route -hopcount (i.e. cost) option, the second 0 is the destination (default)
weight would be specified as a route option just like -hopcount

Originally posted by: tpersoon

So that would mean:

net                       type

-hopcount          [args]

0                           cost

"  "                         ?

0                          destination

ip address         Default gw         

But I still have an undefined value between the two zeroes. Also, I find it strange that the order in which the "chginet method" describes the output, does not correlate with the actual output. If I follow the output like it is put in the documentation, the result would look like this:

net                       type

-hopcount          [args]

0                          destination

"  "                       gateway

0                          [metric]

ip address         ?        

Originally posted by: j.gann

args = "-hopcount,0" representing the route option "-hopcount 0"

args is terminated and followed by a comma, which allows the command (and you) to detect the end of the args

Originally posted by: tpersoon

So that would mean this?:

net                      type

-hopcount,0,    args

0                        metric

ipaddress        default gw

Originally posted by: j.gann

close:

net                      type
-hopcount,0,    args
0                        destination
ipaddress        gateway

destination 0 makes the route a default route, additional static routes will appear as additional inet0 attributes with the same format, specifying destinations other than 0 then of course.