so in other words, the essence of this local policy and route-map is basically saying "mr router, when you generate any icmp echo, don't send it to anywhere but to 11.b.c.d". Yes. Because the ICMP echo is generated locally, this traffic is not forw...

Hey, Your explanation got me curious and yes you are right, the route-map and policy routing ensures that the ping tests are sent directly to 11.b.c.d. I was curious what the local policy command was for, but for those who doesn't know (like me a fe...