Add Delete Route in Linux CentOS 7

Add Delete Route in Linux CentOS 7

Viewing the existing routing table

Before we embark on adding or deleting routes, it’s prudent to check the existing default routes on a system. To do so, simply launch your terminal and issue the command:

or

Similar statistics can be displayed using route command,

Also, you can use the good old netstat  command, which is usually used for printing interface statistics as well as the routing table to achieve the same result.

With the default routing statistics in mind, let’s now move a step further and add some routes to our system.

Adding a static route using IP command

Suppose you want to take a backup of a Linux machine and push the backup file to another backup server in the subnet 10.0.2.0/24. However, for one reason or the other, you cannot reach the backup server  via the default gateway. In this case, you will have to create a new route for backup server subnet via another IP, say 192.168.43.223 via the interface enp0s3.

The command for this will be

• 10.0.2.0      ->             is the network you want to connect to
• /24              ->             is the subnet mask
• 192.168.43.223 ->    is the IP through which we will reach the server
• enp0s3       ->            is the network interface

You can confirm whether new static route add been in route table using “ ip route show ” command.

To add the specific IP of the backup server, say 10.0.2.15 run the command:

Once again, you can check the routing changes to see if the changes exist using the ip route show command:

 

Permanently adding static route (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS)

The routes we have just added are temporary and will not survive a reboot. To make the routes persistent, you need to manually add them.

In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory, create an interface file route-interface where the interface attribute is your network interface name. In our case, this will be route-enp0s3 .

Next, we will add  the routes as shown:

10.0.2.0/32 via 192.168.43.1

10.0.2.15 via 192.168.43.1

Save the file and exit. Then restart NetworkManager Service

Permanently adding static route (Ubuntu / Debian)

For Debian distributions, edit the file /etc/network/interfaces

Append the following line:

Save and exit the file. Finally, for the changes to come into effect, run below commands

Deleting a static route

To delete a specific route, use the ip route del command.

For example, to remove the route address we just added, run the command:

To delete a single IP route in a subnet run the command

To delete default route run:

We hope that this tutorial was informative and provided you with insights into how you can go about adding and deleting static route in Linux CentOS 7. Thank you for reading