Feature request: Actual information on help

[gcb]

What would you like to see in luci?

There are some hints on fields which are redundant, some examples:

Metric: Specifies the route metric to use

MTU: Defines a specific MTU for this route

Those are the minority, but maybe we can add more value to them. For example, i always forget if route metrics are importance level (lower means later) or order (lower means sooner)... but the hint doesn't mention either way. same for MTU.

[systemcrash]

I believe the term you're looking for is ordinal. 1st, 2nd, 3rd. i.e. order (so lowest wins).

What would you propose for MTU? Something a beginner would benefit from.

[gcb]

exactly! i put this up as a reminder to write something in a PR later... My plan was to look at whats already written elsewhere. But the first place I looked https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/network_configuration suffers from a similar problem :)

For MTU i would probably suggest something on the lines of "override Maximum Transmission Unit size in bytes(?). Not recommended" (At least expand the term to give more search keywords heh).

[gcb]

for metric best i found on openwrt.org is https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/multiwan/mwan3?s[]=route&s[]=metric

The default (primary) WAN interface should have the lowest metric. Values are not important, but should always be unique.

just removing the wan mentions there should be good.

[systemcrash]

Sometimes developers write incomprehensible stuff inaccessible to other users. Sure it's logical what it does, but what is the consequence, y'know?

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