When the routed daemon should be turned off

In some circumstances you should turn the routed daemon off. For example, you should turn it off if you have multiple interfaces on the same subnet and you want to direct network traffic to specific interfaces.

If you want to direct traffic to specific interfaces, you must turn the routed daemon off because the daemon sees all interfaces on a subnet as equivalent.

You can safely turn off the routed daemon if the following conditions are true:

• You do not use RIP or router discovery.
• You have a single router per subnet or a network in which redirects are not sent.
• You can manage your routing table directly.