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From: slevy@UC.MSC.UMN.EDU (Stuart Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  question about /etc/route
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Date: 5 Feb 88 02:49:23 GMT
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You seem to need to say
	route -n add ...
in which case it's forced to consider it a network route.