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File man-ip-rule.8-Further-clarify-how-to-interpret-prior.patch of Package iproute2.5568
From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:35:37 +0200 Subject: man: ip-rule.8: Further clarify how to interpret priority value Patch-mainline: v4.11.0 Git-commit: 843fc90068270f4f3e5c44c49c13653e4cf1e6e0 References: bsc#990635 Despite the past changes, users seemed to get confused by the seemingly contradictory relation of priority value and actual rule priority. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Acked-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> --- man/man8/ip-rule.8 | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 b/man/man8/ip-rule.8 index dc93ffb0adae..19725da80bae 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip-rule.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip-rule.8 @@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ Each policy routing rule consists of a .B selector and an .B action predicate. -The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority. The selector +The RPDB is scanned in order of decreasing priority (note that lower number +means higher priority, see the description of +.I PREFERENCE +below). The selector of each rule is applied to {source address, destination address, incoming interface, tos, fwmark} and, if the selector matches the packet, the action is performed. The action predicate may return with success. @@ -218,7 +221,8 @@ value to match. .BI priority " PREFERENCE" the priority of this rule. .I PREFERENCE -is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority. Each rule +is an unsigned integer value, higher number means lower priority, and rules get +processed in order of increasing number. Each rule should have an explicitly set .I unique priority value. -- 2.13.2
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