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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:

>  An James Yonan said:
> > Ah, yes, that's a problem.
> > 
> > The --redirect-gateway implementation needs to be able to get the IP address
> > of the current default gateway.  Unfortunately the standard Berkeley sockets
> > API doesn't give us a portable way of doing this.  Anyone know how to 
> > do this on FreeBSD?
> 
> So ? :) 

Take a look at the implementation of 'route get default' in
src/sbin/route/route.c.  Basically, you ask the routing socket for the
route to 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 (INADDR_ANY).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research