Hi list, I was just looking for a more configurable RIP engine than routed is, when I came across bird. bird seems fine for all I want to do, except one problem: It does not export the RIP metric of routes it receives to the kernel. Or may be I am just too stupid to do it, given that I couldnt get zebra to do it either. With stock routed it works, however. The application I have for this is a VPN with a dial-on-demand modem backup. In order to make the ppp link being used if its up, I need to control the metrics differently for the links. That works fine with bird filters, and the rip announcements do carry the correct metric (i set it to 5), according to tcpdump. However on the other end, the routes show up with metric 0 in the kernel table, which of course disturbs the settings I planned for it. What am I doing wrong ? Regards, Mario -- Mario Lorenz Internet: <ml@vdazone.org> Ham Radio: DL5MLO@OK0PKL.#BOH.CZE.EU "I hear that if you play the NT 4.0 CD backwards, you get a Satanic message!" "That's nothing. If you play it forward, it installs NT 4.0!"