The type of route. Note that local(3) refers to a route for which the next hop is the final destination this is the case when user overides the a local interface entry to change it parameters; remote(4) refers to a route for which the next hop is not the final destina- tion. reject (2) refers to a route which, if matched, discards the message as unreachable. This is may be used as a means of correctly aggregating routes, When static routes are distributed (leaked) to other protocols.