-Afamily | use the specified address family (eg 'inet'; use 'route --help' for a full list). |
-F | operate on the kernel's FIB (Forwarding Information Base) routing table. This is the default. |
-C | operate on the kernel's routing cache. |
-v | select verbose operation. |
-n | show numerical addresses instead of trying to determine symbolic hostnames. This is useful if you are trying to determine why the route to your nameserver has vanished. |
-e | use netstat-format for displaying the routing table. -ee will generate a very long line with all parameters from the routing table. |
del | delete a route. |
add | add a new route. |
target | the destination network or host. You can provide IP addresses in dotted decimal or host/network names. |
-net | the target is a network. |
-host | the target is a host. |
netmaskNM | when adding a network route, the netmask to be used. |
gwGW | route packets via a gateway. NOTE: The specified gateway must be reachable first. This usually means that you have to set up a static route to the gateway beforehand. If you specify the address of one of your localinterfaces, it will be used to decide about the interface to which the packets should be routed. This is a BSD-style compatibility hack. |
metricM | set the metric field in the routing table (used by routing daemons) to M. |
mssM | set the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS) for connections over this route to M bytes. The default is the device MTU minus headers, or a lower MTU when path mtu discovery occurred. This setting can be used to force smaller TCP packets on the other end when path mtu discovery does not work (usually because of misconfigured firewalls that block ICMP Fragmentation Needed) |
windowW | set the TCP window size for connections over this route to Wbytes. This is only used on AX.25 networks and with drivers unable to handle back to back frames. |
irttm | set the initial round trip time (irtt) for TCP connections over this route to mmilliseconds (1-12000). This is only used on AX.25 networks. If omitted the RFC 1122 default of 300ms is used. |
reject | install a blocking route, which will force a route lookup to fail. This is for example used to mask out networks before using the default route. This is NOT for firewalling. |
mod, dyn, reinstate | install a dynamic or modified route. These flags are for diagnostic purposes, and are generally only set by routing daemons. |
devIf | force the route to be associated with the specified device, as the kernel will otherwise try to determine the device on its own (by checking already existing routes and device specifications, and where the route is added to). In most normal networks you won't need this. If devIf is the last option on the command line, the word dev may be omitted, as it's the default. Otherwise, the order of the route modifiers (metric - netmask - gw - dev) doesn't matter. |