Getting the gateway IP address of your machine is a very important trick sometimes. This is very easy on Linux. Use the ip route command on Linux to print information about the IP routing. This includes the gateway IP address. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ ╼ $ ip route | grep default | awk ‘{print $3}’ 192.168.1.1┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos] └──╼ … Read more
This is how you find out the gateway IP address of your Linux machine on a LAN. I have executed the route -n command and I have this output. The UG flags on the IP address denote it as a gateway IP address. root@darknet:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric … Read more
Adding a default route in Linux is easy. The route command is the best way to do this. ~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1 I used this command on a machine that previously had an IP address in the 192.168.0.xx range and the default gateway was 192.168.0.1. So I had … Read more
The netstat command may be used to show the routing tables for your network connection easily. Use the netstat -r command to achieve this. iMac05:~ admin$ netstat -r Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire default 172.18.31.1 UGSc 31 0 en0 127 localhost UCS 0 0 lo0 localhost localhost UH 0 … Read more