From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 18:09:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59A68C3 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 18:09:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93001DE4 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 18:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8835A33C25; Wed, 29 May 2013 14:09:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Joe Subject: Re: looking for command to display default route ip address References: <51A642E5.2050506@a1poweruser.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:09:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51A642E5.2050506@a1poweruser.com> (Joe's message of "Wed, 29 May 2013 14:03:17 -0400") Message-ID: <44k3mhhd4j.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 18:09:22 -0000 Joe writes: > Hello list > > How do I find the ip address of the default route? The next-hop address, or the local address? The former can be easily parsed out of the netstat(1) output, the latter isn't necessarily unique.