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Commands using route

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Terminal - Commands using route - 14 results
ip route get 8.8.8.8 2>/dev/null|grep -Eo 'src [0-9.]+'|grep -Eo '[0-9.]+'
2012-10-14 02:06:13
User: intangible
Functions: get grep route
Tags: IP ip address wireless VPN interface wifi route
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Grab IP address on machine with multiple interfaces

Instead of hard-coding in a check to scrape info from ifconfig based on a specific interface, do it in a more portable way.

This works really well if you switch between wired, wireless, bluetooth or even VPN connections. You can get your current IP in a script (since it'll be something like tun0 instead of eth0 or wlan1).

This uses a well known public ip address 8.8.8.8, but it doesn't actually connect to it, it just shows you the route it would take.

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ip route get dest_ip
2012-08-08 17:19:16
User: miguelcnf
Functions: get route
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Print a single route to a destination and its contents exactly as the kernel sees it

Useful to determine the source_ip of outgoing packages to a certain destination

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route -n | perl -ne '$ANY="0.0.0.0"; /^$ANY/ and split /\s+/ and print "Gateway to the World: ",($_[1]!=$ANY)?$_[1]:(`ip address show $_[$#_]`=~/peer ([0-9\.]+)/ and $1),", via $_[$#_].\n"'
2011-09-13 08:05:58
User: bandie91
Functions: perl route split
Tags: Network perl IP router gateway
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Find default gateway (proper at ppp connections too)
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for net in $(ip route show | cut -f1 -d\ | grep -v default); do ipcalc $net | grep Broadcast | cut -d\ -f 2; done
2010-09-28 13:21:31
User: svg
Functions: cut grep route
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List all broadcast addresses for the routes on your host.

Can be used in a firewall script, e.g. to avoid logging broadcast packtes.

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ip route | awk '/default/{print $3}'
2010-08-10 21:16:40
User: rthemocap
Functions: awk route
Tags: awk gateway
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Find default gateway
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route -n | grep "^0\." | awk '{print "Gateway to the World: "$2", via "$NF""}'
2010-08-09 11:55:37
User: bandie91
Functions: awk grep route
Tags: Network IP router gateway
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Find default gateway
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ip route show | awk '$3 ~ /^[1-9]+/ {print $3;}'
2010-08-08 23:57:23
User: kerim
Functions: awk route
Tags: Network IP router gateway
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Find default gateway

Find your default gateway and print it directly output.

http://www.bayner.com/

kerim@bayner.com

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route -n | awk '$2 ~/[1-9]+/ {print $2;}'
2010-08-08 23:51:07
User: kerim
Functions: awk route
Tags: Network IP router gateway
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Find default gateway

Find your default gateway and print it directly output

http://www.bilgisayarmatematik.com/

kerim@bayner.com

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ip route list match 0.0.0.0/0 | cut -d " " -f 3
2010-03-07 15:41:18
User: BaS
Functions: cut route
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Fetch the Gateway Ip Address

Better use iproute2 !

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ip route show dev eth0 | awk '{print $7}'
2009-05-26 20:29:54
User: P17
Functions: awk route
Tags: IP
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Show LAN IP with ip(8)
ip address show | grep eth0 | sed '1d' | awk '{print $2}'

does the same, but shows network-prefix.

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ip route show dev ppp0 | awk '{ print $7 }'
2009-05-06 02:07:57
User: williamruckman
Functions: awk route
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Print IP of any interface. Useful for scripts.
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arp -s $(route -n | awk '/^0.0.0.0/ {print $2}') \ $(arp -n | grep `route -n | awk '/^0.0.0.0/ {print $2}'`| awk '{print $3}')
2009-03-25 09:53:10
User: aramosf
Functions: arp awk grep route
Tags: Network Security
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add static arp entry to default gateway, arp poison protection
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sudo route add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gw 127.0.0.1 lo
2009-02-23 19:58:09
User: JackiesJungle
Functions: route sudo
Tags: Security
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Drop or block attackers IP with null routes

Someone might attack on your system. You can drop attacker IP using IPtables. However, you can use route command to null route unwanted traffic. A null route (also called as blackhole route) is a network route or kernel routing table entry that goes nowhere. Matching packets are dropped (ignored) rather than forwarded, acting as a kind of very limited firewall. The act of using null routes is often called blackhole filtering.

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ip route | grep default | awk '{print $3}'
2009-02-16 16:29:03
User: ruedu
Functions: awk grep route
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Get your default route

This gets you your default route programatically, useful for scripts

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