Show the routing table on MacOS

Posted Over 8 years ago. Visible to the public.

When things get weird with your internet connection and you can't even ping the router's IP, you should have a look at the routing table:

  $ netstat -nr

It gives you:

netstat -nr
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.3        UGSc          131        0     en6
127                127.0.0.1          UCS             0        0     lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH              9      448     lo0
127.94.0.1         127.94.0.1         UH              0        0     lo0
169.254            link#5             UCS             1        0     en6
169.254.255.255    ec:e1:a9:37:52:42  UHLSW           0        0     en6
192.168.0/22       link#5             UCS             2        0     en6
192.168.1.3        ec:e1:a9:37:52:42  UHLWIir       132       92     en6   1166
192.168.4.111      127.0.0.1          UHS             0        0     lo0
192.168.4.255      ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  UHLWbI          0        1     en6

Internet6:
Destination                             Gateway                         Flags         Netif Expire
::1                                     ::1                             UHL             lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                           fe80::1%lo0                     UcI             lo0
fe80::1%lo0                             link#1                          UHLI            lo0
fe80::%en6/64                           link#5                          UCI             en6
fe80::2acf:e9ff:fe5f:d6c9%en6           sd:sd:sd:sd:sdc9               UHLI            lo0
ff01::%lo0/32                           ::1                             UmCI            lo0
ff01::%en6/32                           link#5                          UmCI            en6
ff02::%lo0/32                           ::1                             UmCI            lo0
ff02::%en6/32                           link#5                          UmCI            en6
Christoph Beck
Last edit
Over 8 years ago
Christoph Beck
Posted by Christoph Beck to BitCrowd (2015-09-04 08:59)