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The routing information necessary for this is stored in the routing table.
You can set the entries in the routing table as:
- being static (manually)
- or dynamic (using the routing daemon process).
There are three ways of defining the target address as the routing entry:
- Complete IP address of the target host (host route)
- Only the network portion of the IP address (network route)
- Default route (only one entry)
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With Network - (netstat|network statistics) command-line tool:
netstat -r
output example:
- at the you see a list of interface
- them several route tables by IP protocol (IPv4, IPv6)
IPv4 Route Table
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Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.135.1 192.168.135.148 55
10.0.75.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 10.0.75.1 271
10.0.75.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.0.75.1 271
10.0.75.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.0.75.1 271
...........
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Persistent Routes:
None
IPv6 Route Table
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Active Routes:
If Metric Network Destination Gateway
1 331 ::1/128 On-link
4 271 fe80::/64 On-link
9 5256 fe80::/64 On-link
6 311 fe80::/64 On-link
19 271 fe80::/64 On-link
29 281 fe80::/64 On-link
29 281 fe80::3930:2a78:af12:6857/128 On-link
where In windows / linux, you may see this field:
- Destination - Destination (Mask) specifies the host that is the destination endpoint of the route. Note that the IPv6 routing table shows the prefix for a 6to4 tunnel endpoint (fe80::/64) as the route destination endpoint.
- Flags indicates the current status of the route.
- The U flag indicates that the route is up.
- The G flag indicates that the route is to a gateway.
- Use: Shows the number of packets sent.
- Interface - Indicates the particular interface on the local host that is the source endpoint of the transmission.