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Significance of priority in "ip rule" command

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What is the significance of the prio option in ip rule add/del command? Does a higher priority for a rule give it preference over other rules in the table? I saw this piece of code online, without any comments to it. I'm curious to know what it does:

Error Output

ip rule del prio 32766 from "" dev "" fwmark 0 table main

ip rule del prio 32767 from "" dev "" fwmark 0 table default

ip rule add prio 4294967293Uā€¦

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Fix for: Significance of priority in "ip rule" command

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The priority determines the order in which the rules are checked (from lowest number to highest). The first rule which matches the packet is used. The maximum priority is 32767 though, so those big priority numbers don't make sense.

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