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-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2018 $
.Dt ROUTE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a utility used to manually view and manipulate the network routing tables.
-Except for setting up the default route, it normally is not needed to
-manipulate routes, as a
-system routing table management daemon, such as
-.Xr ripd 8 ,
-.Xr ospfd 8 ,
-or
-.Xr bgpd 8 ,
-should tend to this task.
-.Pp
.Nm
can be used to modify nearly any aspect of the routing policy,
except packet forwarding, which can be manipulated through the