policy route without mangle/fwmark

RouterOS General
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coming from plain linux, I've done a lot of basic policy routing on src address, in linux:

rules

ip rule add from 10.110.110.1/32 lookup 201
ip rule add from 10.110.110.2/32 lookup 202

routes for those tables

ip ro add default via 192.168.123.1 table 201
ip ro add default via 10.34.34.100 table 202

and I would only use fwmark if I needed policy routing on more complicated criteria

I just want to clarify: using routeros, the same still applies, correct? as in, if I'm only policy routing on src address, I do not need to mark anything in mangle, and can use just / ip route rule.

The reason I ask is all the examples I see use mangle in addition to rules, such as RouterOS - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation, when it doesn't seem necessary.

Thanks for your time
Ryan

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if all your using is src or interface then you can use /ip route rule only. Much cleaner.

Sam