In article <200103131422.TAA02039@hps14.sasi.com> you wrote: > I am trying to locate where the metric for a route is maintained. I > could not find it in struct rtable and struct dstentry. It is set by rtentry.rt_metric from usermode with ol style SIOCADDRT and stored in the FIB: struct kern_rta.rta_priority See fib_semantics in kernel-2.4.x/net/ipv4/ Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org