http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=route
Route is a utility used to manually manipulate the network routing tables. It normally is not needed, as a system routing table management daemon such as routed(8), should tend to this task.
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BUGS
The first paragraph may have slightly exaggerated routed(8)'s abilities.
Is this really a "bug", or some developer's attempt at humour?