How to Check Routing Table on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora

In Linux operating system, routing table is used by the computer networks or servers to stores the routes of the destinations that responsible for forwarding. Routing tables contain a list of IP addresses and each of IP addresses identifies a network gateway. In this post, i will show you three ways to check and display the linux Routing Table. This command has been tested on CentOS 6.4 server.
Method 1. Display routing table using “netstat -rn” :

[root@centos64 ~]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0

Method 2. Display routing table using “ip route show” :

[root@centos64 ~]# ip route show
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.44
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0  scope link  metric 1002
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0

3. Display routing table using “route -n” :

[root@centos64 ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1002   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0