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how to find out the gateways IP?

Hi!
ifconfig doesn't list the gateway's IP? How can I found out gateways IP? Thank you!

use the route command

Code:

route

Or go to a website like

http://whatismyip.com

or use tracepath

Code:

tracepath google.com

Code:

netstat -ran

Will show your gateways for any configured routes (including the default route). This assumes that have already configured your gateway correctly or received it from DHCP.

If you're asking "how do I find out what my gateway should be" then you need to ask your network administrator. There's no way to find out what you should set it to if it's not already set and/or cannot be discovered with DHCP.

Thanks! it's working!

Quote:

Originally Posted by chort

Code:

netstat -ran

If you're asking "how do I find out what my gateway should be" then you need to ask your network administrator. There's no way to find out what you should set it to if it's not already set and/or cannot be discovered with DHCP.

No, I just wanted to find out the existing one. Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shioni

Thanks! it's working!

No, I just wanted to find out the existing one. Thanks!

Well in case it wasn't obvious, you can find that out with netstat. Here's an example from my network:

Code:

chort@twdemos:~> netstat -ran

Kernel IP routing table

Destination    Gateway        Genmask        Flags  MSS Window  irtt Iface

172.22.2.0      0.0.0.0        255.255.255.128 U        0 0          0 eth0

172.16.38.0    0.0.0.0        255.255.255.0  U        0 0          0 vmnet1

192.168.134.0  0.0.0.0        255.255.255.0  U        0 0          0 vmnet8

192.168.1.0    0.0.0.0        255.255.255.0  U        0 0          0 eth1

169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0        255.255.0.0    U        0 0          0 eth1

127.0.0.0      0.0.0.0        255.0.0.0      U        0 0          0 lo

0.0.0.0        172.22.2.1      0.0.0.0        UG        0 0          0 eth0

The last line above that starts 0.0.0.0 is the "default route", i.e. your "gateway" for all traffic that hasn't been specifically routed otherwise. The second column shows the gateway IP (in this case it's 172.22.2.1).