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         <td>Selects route type. Each type specifies a different behavior for the route:
 
         <td>Selects route type. Each type specifies a different behavior for the route:
 
             <ul>
 
             <ul>
                 <li><b>unicast</b> - </li>
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                 <li><b>unicast</b> - most common type of route, simply describes a path to a destination.</li>
 
                 <li><b>local</b> - routes of this type are added to the 'local' routing table and used only for locally hosted IPs.</li>
 
                 <li><b>local</b> - routes of this type are added to the 'local' routing table and used only for locally hosted IPs.</li>
 
                 <li><b>broadcast</b> - routes of this type are added to the 'local' routing table and used by link layer devices that support the broadcast address principle.</li>
 
                 <li><b>broadcast</b> - routes of this type are added to the 'local' routing table and used by link layer devices that support the broadcast address principle.</li>
                 <li><b>multicast</b> - </li>
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                 <li><b>multicast</b> - used for distribution of multicast traffic.</li>
                 <li><b>unreachable</b> - </li>
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                 <li><b>unreachable</b> - sends an ICMP "unreachable" response to the source address when a request for a routing decision returns a "destination with an unreachable route type" message.</li>
 
                 <li><b>prohibit</b> - used to prohibit traffic to specified host or network. When a destination is prohibited, the kernel sends a 'Network is unreachable' response the source address.</li>
 
                 <li><b>prohibit</b> - used to prohibit traffic to specified host or network. When a destination is prohibited, the kernel sends a 'Network is unreachable' response the source address.</li>
 
                 <li><b>blackhole</b> - packets that match this type of route are discarded without any response.</li>
 
                 <li><b>blackhole</b> - packets that match this type of route are discarded without any response.</li>
                 <li><b>anycast</b> - </li>
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                 <li><b>anycast</b> - provides a possibility to route incoming requests to a multiple different network locations.</li>
                 <li><b>-- custom --</b> - </li>
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                 <li><b>-- custom --</b> - does not use any of the predefined route types.</li>
 
             </ul>
 
             </ul>
 
         </td>
 
         </td>

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