Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!rel!bob
From: bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: map wizardry - terminal links
Summary: pathalias
Message-ID: <1132@rel.eds.com>
Date: 10 Dec 88 12:35:39 GMT
References: <571@comdesign.CDI.COM> <810@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <513@ditka.UUCP> <3528@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Organization: Electronic Data Systems, Troy, MI
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In article <3528@ttidca.TTI.COM>, alter@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) writes:
> In article <4109@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
> The problem with the above suggestion (please correct me if I'm
> wrong!) is that pathalias would see two unrestricted costs for the
----Much edited------- 
> What is missing is the ability for formtek's paths.local to OVERRIDE
> other costs for the same links, i.e. if the

If I understand pathalias correctly, pathalias will use whatever value for
the cost of the link that it physically reads last.

i.e.  Most people use a wildcard as input to pathalias.  This means that if you 
had duplicate links in u.usa.al.1 and u.usa.mi.1 then the cost in u.usa.mi.1
would be used.

(Peter, is this correct?)

bob




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