diff --git a/doc/Building_FRR_on_CentOS6.md b/doc/Building_FRR_on_CentOS6.md
index 4139daf316..b25845c38a 100644
--- a/doc/Building_FRR_on_CentOS6.md
+++ b/doc/Building_FRR_on_CentOS6.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ CentOS 6 restrictions:
 - Zebra is unable to detect what bridge/vrf an interface is associcated
   with (IFLA_INFO_SLAVE_KIND does not exist in the kernel headers, you
   can use a newer kernel + headers to get this functionality)
+- frr_reload.py will not work, as this requires Python 2.7, and CentOS 6
+  only has 2.6.  You can install Python 2.7 via IUS, but it won't work
+  properly unless you compile and install the ipaddr package for it.
 
 Install required packages
 -------------------------
diff --git a/redhat/frr.init b/redhat/frr.init
index cf01e4c6e3..a62647b258 100755
--- a/redhat/frr.init
+++ b/redhat/frr.init
@@ -515,6 +515,18 @@ case "$1" in
         if [ -z "$dmn" -o "$dmn" = "zebra" ]; then
             echo "Removing all routes made by zebra."
             ip route flush proto zebra
+            # At least in CentOS/RHEL 6, iproute2 doesn't know
+            # about the new protocol names, so we have to flush them
+            # by number (it also doesn't support rt_protos.d
+            ip route flush proto 186
+            ip route flush proto 187
+            ip route flush proto 188
+            ip route flush proto 189
+            ip route flush proto 190
+            ip route flush proto 191
+            ip route flush proto 192
+            ip route flush proto 193
+            ip route flush proto 194
         else
             [ -n "$dmn" ] && eval "${dmn/-/_}=0"
             start_watchfrr