Route (command)

route is a Linux command and Windows used to view and manipulate the IP routing table in Linux, Unix-like and Windows.

Basic Linux commands

• Add default router:
  • route add default gw 192.168.1.254 eth0
• Add route to an specific subnet:
  • [[route add -net 10.10.10.0/24 dev eth0
• netstat -rn
• ip route show

Basic Windows commands

• route delete 10.10.10.10
• route print

MacOS

route add default xx.xx.xx.xx

Network configuration files

• Ubuntu (systemd): networkctl
  • /lib/systemd/network, the volatile runtime network directory /run/systemd/network
  • /etc/systemd/network

Related commands: ip route [show|xxx]

PAN-OS

show routing route

Related terms

• /proc/net/route
• ip

See also

• route, IOS: show ip route, PAN-OS: show routing route, route add, route del
• IP: route, mtr, traceroute, tcptraceroute, lft, TTL
• ip [link, route], ifconfig netstat ss lsof ping ethtool mii-tool arping nmcli(RHEL) route networkctl, netplan, tc
• TCP/IP, Transport protocol, UDP, SCTP, QUIC, subnet mask, Routing protocols: BGP, routing table, Policy based routing, multicast, TCP Fast Open, RDP, TTL, RTT, MPTCP, Large send offload (LSO): (TSO, GRO, GSO, TCP checksum), ethtool, SCTP, 5-Tuple, Check TCP connectivity, TCP window size, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem, ack, List of TCP ports, localhost, broadcast address