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: <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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