Tag: route

How to add delete routes in linux

There are two commands which are useful either to add or delete route, those are  route and ip. We will see how to change route using command route.

Route Synopsis

Adding route

Deleting route

A quick way to add default route

A  quick way to delete defualt route

 

How to check routes (routing table) in linux

The route is nothing but a path or way to the specific or range of destination IP addresses. Linux kernel maintains these routes called as kernel routing table and will route the traffic accordingly.

You can use any one of them to display the routing table

route
netstat
ip

Command route

The command route is used to modify and check the existing routes. To check the routing table using route command,

This will display the list of routes currently configured

Command: route -n 

This will give the output with out resolving the names

Command netstat

This command gives the statistics about the network. With this command you can do more than just printing routing table,

Print network connections,
routing tables,
interface statistics,
masquerade connections,  and
multicast memberships

To check the routing table,

Command: nestat -rn

Where

Option -r  is to display the routing table

Option -n is not to resolve the names. Print the IP addresses only

Command IP

To check routing table using command ip 

Command: ip route list

To find hops, route of the destination and how your machine is reaching the destination you use tracepath

Where you can replace howto.lintel.in with specific domain or IP address.