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@@ -1674,6 +1674,15 @@ Common route attributes are:
creation/removal. Zero is returned for routes with undefined outgoing
interfaces. Read-only.
+ <tag><label id="rta-weight"><m/int/ weight</tag>
+ Multipath weight of route next hops. Valid values are 1-256. Reading
+ returns the weight of the first next hop, setting it sets weights of all
+ next hops to the specified value. Therefore, this attribute is not much
+ useful for manipulating individual next hops of an ECMP route, but can
+ be used in BGP multipath setup to set weights of individual routes that
+ are merged to one ECMP route during export to the Kernel protocol
+ (with active <ref id="krt-merge-paths" name="marge paths"> option).
+
<tag><label id="rta-igp-metric"><m/int/ igp_metric</tag>
The optional attribute that can be used to specify a distance to the
network for routes that do not have a native protocol metric attribute