Heres a hint, something goes foul around block size == content size.
$ cp /proc/net/route /tmp/out
$ ls -l /tmp/out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 512 Aug 11 01:06 /tmp/out

$ outf="/tmp/out"; for exp in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
   printf "bs=%-8s " "$((2**$exp))";
   out=$(dd if=/proc/net/route of=$outf bs=$((2**${exp})) 2>&1) ||
     { echo $?; break; }
   md5sum $outf | awk '{print $1}';
done 
bs=2        dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=4        dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=8        dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=16       dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=32       dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=64       dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=128      dd4fb0207e97b95c910d3116293a5009
bs=256      da8a6ac4fe0557bad7aa9dbc1e45dfd3
bs=512      4b3663ec7554cf91764106ea9dcc2ada
bs=1024     4b3663ec7554cf91764106ea9dcc2ada

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  odd behavior with /proc/net/route reading via sh 'read'

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