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Display the routing table in either Windows or Ubuntu
From a command prompt or terminal window, run this command:
netstat -rn
You should see output that looks similar to this:
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 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
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- Published 09/11/06
This is not working on Windows XP. The correct option is “netstat -r”
in what file does the routing table sit in Ubuntu
Kanakan> You said that without testing it… didn’t you? Big mistake.
Well the connection says its connected but The laptop will not go on line I Enabled the network sharing on the broad band connection but the laptop ( Ubuntu 8.04 ) is not getting on line . . Using a RJ – 45 connection between them
I did test this.
C:\Documents and Settings\xyz>netstat -m
Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections.
NETSTAT [-a] [-b] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-p proto] [-r] [-s] [-v] [interval]
-a Displays all connections and listening ports.
-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or
listening port. In some cases well-known executables host
multiple independent components, and in these cases the
sequence of components involved in creating the connection
or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable
name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called,
and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option
can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient
permissions.
-e Displays Ethernet statistics. This may be combined with the -s
option.
-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.
-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.
-p proto Shows connections for the protocol specified by proto; proto
may be any of: TCP, UDP, TCPv6, or UDPv6. If used with the -s
option to display per-protocol statistics, proto may be any of:
IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, or UDPv6.
-r Displays the routing table.
-s Displays per-protocol statistics. By default, statistics are
shown for IP, IPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6, TCP, TCPv6, UDP, and UDPv6;
the -p option may be used to specify a subset of the default.
-v When used in conjunction with -b, will display sequence of
components involved in creating the connection or listening
port for all executables.
interval Redisplays selected statistics, pausing interval seconds
between each display. Press CTRL+C to stop redisplaying
statistics. If omitted, netstat will print the current
configuration information once.
C:\Documents and Settings\xyz>netstat -r
Route Table
===========================================================================
Interface List
0×1 ……………………… MS TCP Loopback interface
0×2 …00 1c c4 20 9b 38 …… Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC – Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 212.124.45.62 212.124.45.37 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
212.124.45.32 255.255.255.224 212.124.45.37 212.124.45.37 20
212.124.45.37 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
212.124.45.255 255.255.255.255 212.124.45.37 212.124.45.37 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 212.124.45.37 212.124.45.37 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 212.124.45.37 212.124.45.37 1
Default Gateway: 212.124.45.62
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None
They wrote -r -n (-rn) you interpreted it as an m thus it did not work
Cheers,
JRM
I got it connected by changing the Network address in the RJ-45 ( network card in windows )
to 192.168.1.2 . . You get to it by right clicking on the network connection and go down to “Properties” then when it comes up click on “Configure” next to the ( brand of network connection ) and it opens another Item go to “Advanced” and in the “Network Address” add the above 192.168.1.2 Linux will have already made the connection from its end . . Its windows which has problems doing much of any networking and is the biggest Problem of computers
Do you know I am able to do 2 X the speed of the speed on the windows computer going out the door via the RJ-45 connection and same fire wall ! Down load same file same web site in 1/2 the time in Linux . . 1 in Ubuntu Linux , 1 in windows XP Pro ! Explain that one ! Same USB720 Verizon Modem Linux hits 2.9 megs per and windows if its lucky gets 1.3 megs per . . WHY ?
I heard they totally re-wrote the Stack in Vista and still slow ( LMAO )
lol I thought it was an ‘m’ too!
Routing info you can also get with the commands “ipconfig” (Windows) and “ifconfig” (Linux).
Also in Linux try “iptables -L” to see the routing (and firewall) rules.
Lynne, I get the same speed whether I use Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubutu, or SLED. ~8Mb/s.
That is the limit that my ISP has imposed on me because of my lack of desire to spend more money per month.
I wonder if it might have something to do with the fact that you’re using a USB modem? USB and Windows never really got along well…
Hmm, actually, you say RJ-45, but the modem you list is USB wireless only… I dunno.
I tried it in Windows 7 / 64 bits, a small (DOS) screen appeared for a very short time, and than it disappeared. What should I do?