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

Man page: https://linux.die.net/man/8/route

• 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

route del

route del -net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.178.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0

Basic Windows commands

route delete 10.10.10.10

route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 XXX 10.10.10.10

route print

MacOS

route add default xx.xx.xx.xx

route del default

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
• traceroute
• Windows: route print
• route directive /etc/openvpn/server.conf

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