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Use the ip route command to create an ip route manually on Linux.

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This command will add an IP route to the 172.29.59.1 router using the wlan0 wireless interface card on my laptop. jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0jason@darknet:~$ sudo ip route add 0/0 via 172.29.59.1 dev wlan0 This is part of the process of creating a network connection from your machine to a … Read more

Adding a default route in Linux. How to define the default gateway.

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Adding a default route in Linux is easy. The route command is the best way to do this. ~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1~# route add default gw 172.18.31.1 I used this command on a machine that previously had an IP address in the 192.168.0.xx range and the default gateway was 192.168.0.1. So I had … Read more