How to find Gateway Ip in Linux

Gateway is a node (ie.router) that act as a network point used to pass the data from local area network to outside network.It is not possible to use internet without gateways.

In this tutorial i will show you how to find the gateway IP in Linux using route,netstat and ip route commands

Using route command

route -n

Use the command as "route" in terminal followed by -n option to list the gateway ip address

• -n for showing numerical addresses

From the image my gateway IP address is 192.168.147.2 and the flags U indicates link is up and G represents the gateway

Using netstat command

netstat -rn 

The command "netstat"  will print all the list of open sockets, so use the options r and n

• -r for showing the routing table
• -n for showing numerical addresses

Using ip route command

ip route

The command "ip route" will also used for displaying the gateway details

Thank you for referring this tutorial.