On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 02:45:59PM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> Poking around looking for more information, I ran across this little tidbit:
>
> From man 7 rtnetlink:
> rtm_type Route type
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> RTN_UNSPEC unknown route
> RTN_UNICAST a gateway or direct route
> RTN_LOCAL a local interface route
> RTN_BROADCAST a local broadcast route (sent as a broadcast)
> RTN_ANYCAST a local broadcast route (sent as a unicast)
> RTN_MULTICAST a multicast route
> RTN_BLACKHOLE a packet dropping route
> RTN_UNREACHABLE an unreachable destination
> RTN_PROHIBIT a packet rejection route
> RTN_THROW continue routing lookup in another table
>
> This clears up the confusion I had about "anycast" versus "broadcast".
>
> Is there a shell tool that will show the route type(s) for a
> specified address?
# nft describe fib saddr type
fib expression, datatype fib_addrtype (fib address type) (basetype integer), 32 bits
pre-defined symbolic constants (in decimal):
unspec 0
unicast 1
local 2
broadcast 3
anycast 4
multicast 5
blackhole 6
unreachable 7
prohibit 8
