netstat -rn output

[Shivkumar]

In the output of "netstat -rn" we get an ip in front of the defualt field under the column gateway as shown below:
Destination Gateway
default 192.151.52.8

Can anyone tell what does it mean ?

Thanks,
Shiv

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

This referes to the default gateway of the system. All the IP's which are not listed anywhere else in the output will be tried to reach out through this IP.

HTH,
Devender

[Joseph Loo]

hi shiv,

do u mean the IP address, 192.151.52.8 next to default? if so, that will be your gateway which is inserted to /etc/rc.config.d/netconf under ROUTE_GATEWAY.

regards.

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

Hi Shiv,

The gateway of your system is 192.151.52.8
Double check with /etc/rc.config.d/netconf, you should see something like below :

ROUTE_GATEWAY[x]=192.151.52.8

Hope this information can help.

Cheers,
AW

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi Shiv,
Default in front of the IP address here means that this is the default route for your system. Which means that when your application tries to access IP address outside the subnet of your server then they are all forwarded to this default route (could be a router or a system acting as router)

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

default 192.151.52.8 indicates your default gateway.

in your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf, you should be having something like:
...
ROUTE_DESTINATION[0]="default"
ROUTE_MASK[0]=""
ROUTE_GATEWAY[0]="192.151.52.8"
ROUTE_COUNT[0]="1"
ROUTE_ARGS[0]=""
...

NB. One piece of advice, is "Don't post your private information like you have done here." This is very dangerous in the world of hackers and crual social engineers.

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Himanshu_3 · Accepted solution]

Shiv,

For every IP address there should be a gateway defined. This gateway is the interface to the output world for all its data excahnge, where it recieves the data and transmits the data to/from the gateway.

As an example to the practical scenerio, we have two interfaces (IP) defined on our system and both the interfaces are been used for different purposes, where one is the gigabit lan which is used in case of backup to the backup tsm server and the other is the normal ethernet connection for its day to day connection activities.Bothe the interfaces have their own IP addresses and own gateways.

Hope this clears your concept.

Regards,
Himanshu

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi Shiv

Default 192.151.52.8 is configured ip address of default gateway in the systems. You may see the same information with complete details of network configuration in /etc/rc.confid.d/netconf file

Regards
Mahesh

[Cem Tugrul]

Shiv,

default 192.151.52.8 shows your default gateway and as Himanshu's told "For every IP address there should be a gateway defined"
you can also see this ip address on your;
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
Finally,i am fully agree with Rogeeraj as
he told ""Don't post your private information like you have done here..This is very dangerous in the world of hackers and crual social engineers" unless
i also sometimes give my private address.

Good Luck,

[Shivkumar]

i got the answer. thanks.