Linux Administration Cookbook

Discerning the gateway address (deprecated method)

With net-tools installed, we can also use the route command to find our default route out:

$ routeKernel IP routing tableDestination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Ifacedefault         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    102    0        0 eth010.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     102    0        0 eth0192.168.33.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 eth1