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From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
Subject: Re: Removal of ROUTE target - what now?
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:47:17 -0400
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It has been a while since I was running a configuration like that, 
however I believe that the kernel does not walk every routing table on 
the system in order to establish RPF state.

Might be wrong though - Been a few years.

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Since the routing layer now knows about a.b.c.d->p.q.r.s (it does not
> when you use ipt_ROUTE), things could work even if RPF are on.
> Of course that I what I believe or what I believe should be happening;
> if it is not, feel free to correct me :)
>