Configuring Linux host routing
Once you've defined new IP interfaces, the next step is to configure routing. In most cases, Linux host routing configuration is limited solely to specifying a host's default gateway. While that's typically as far as most need to go, a Linux host is capable of being a full-fledged router. In this recipe, we'll learn how to interrogate a Linux hosts routing table as well as manually configure routes.
Getting ready
In order to view and manipulate networking settings, you'll want to ensure that you have the iproute2 toolset installed. If not present on the system, it can be installed by using the following command:
sudo apt-get install iproute2
In order to make network changes to the host, you'll also need root-level access. ...
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