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Describe provider weights in the routing documentation

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</authorgroup>
<pubdate>2005-05-27</pubdate>
<pubdate>2005-06-01</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2005</year>
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not be perfect, as it is route based, and routes are
cached. This means that routes to often-used sites will
always be over the same provider.</para>
<para>By default, each provider is given the same weight
(1) . Beginning with 2.4.0-RC3, you can change the weight
of a given provider by following
<emphasis>balance</emphasis> with "=" and the desired
weight (e.g., balance=2). The weights reflect the relative
bandwidth of the providers connections and should be small
numbers since the kernel actually creates additional
default routes for each weight increment. </para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glosslist>