IGP Metric to MED

[Corban Johnson]

I was a curious about the purpose of ‘igp_metric’ attribute while investigating this. It seems to only be used as a generic container attribute in route.h. Is there a reason that property is not exposed?

Maybe ‘igp_cost’? :)

> On Mar 22, 2019, at 15:10, Ondrej Zajicek <santiago at crfreenet.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 02:56:21PM -0500, Corban Johnson wrote:
>>> If you want, i can send you patch to fix
>>> that.
>> 
>> That would be very helpful, thank you :)
> 
> Attached (untested).
> 
> It adds read-only integer property nh_cost to access that.
> 
> The name of the property is horrible (that is why the patch is not
> commited), i would be glad for a better idea. Unfortunately, 'igp_metric'
> cannot be used (as it represent the original property of OSPF routes,
> which is technically a different property with a different access
> code).
> 
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> Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago at crfreenet.org)
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> <igp_metric.patch>