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Man pages just take some getting used to -- if they're set up right, like most thankfully are these days, they can be pretty helpful. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for, but know about something that's somewhat related, you can usually go to the bottom and check out the "SEE ALSO" and "FILES" sections, which often is what I need.
I'm dismayed by the apparent trend of man pages being left out-of-date in favor of info pages. Info sucks, ascii-based Emacs sucks, and I can never remember the keystrokes to get back where I was.
Looking at the "route" page jogged my memory -- I believe I might have un-checked the "routed" package during install, which would explain why everything wasn't "just working" like it was. I try to maintain some semblance of security by removing all these daemons I never use or that are potentially dangerous (i.e. finger, telnet, rsh) and may have gotten a bit trigger-happy!
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