From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Samuel Subject: Re: determine gateway on remote server? Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:57:49 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40B1569D.3010300@bcgreen.com> References: <57365.207.190.213.246.1085161142.squirrel@xeon.gameservergods.com> <01d001c43f65$87af0ea0$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <01d001c43f65$87af0ea0$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Adam Lang Cc: luke@techfreak.org, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org the command: route -n should do the job. -n says's don't look up the DNS names for addresses. the default route will have a 'destination' of 0.0.0.0 and a 'genmask' of 0.0.0.0 In the example below, the gateway would be 192.168.86.254 ] % route -n ] Kernel IP routing table ] Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface ] 192.168.86.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 ] 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo ] 0.0.0.0 192.168.86.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ] % > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 1:39 PM > Subject: determine gateway on remote server? > > > >>Hey all, >> >>I have a new dedicated RH9 server and need to assign three new IPs >>to virtual devices. Normally, I just copy the basic ifcfg-eth0 >>iformation, such as gateway and netmask into ifcfg-eth0:1 etc. >>However, this data center setup my ifcfg-eth0 to use dhcp........ so >>the ifcfg-eth0 file contains nothing of value to me. >> >>I can use ifconfig to get the netmask, but how do I determine the >>default gateway for this server? I need this to build the new >>vistual devices, such as ifcfg-eth0:1 . >> >>Thanks in advance for your suggestions. >> >>Luke -- Stephen Samuel +1(604)876-0426 samuel@bcgreen.com http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/ Powerful committed communication. Transformation touching the jewel within each person and bringing it to light.