Linux 101 : Routing, adding routes, checking routes - ip route -
Displaying the routes:
To check the routes and the interfaces our packets take when talking to a specific machine, we could use the below command for a host with the IP - 10.15.1.7 -:
The above results show that we would go to the host - 10.15.1.7 - via the gateway address - 10.1.1.1 - through the - eth0 - interface.
To communicate locally Linux uses the loopback address - lo - as we can see below:
Assigning an IP address to an interface:
To assign an IP address for example - 10.168.45.22 - with a netmask of - 24 - to the interface - eth0 -, we use the below command:
Adding a route to the routing table:
The below command adds a route that instructs our IP address to go through the interface - eth1- and the gateway - 10.164.32.12 - if there is a need to send any requests to any host in the following network -10.16.20.0/24 -:
We could check if the routing table has been updated with the new entry using the below command:
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