Appendix A Network Troubleshooting
and other route information. When your computer wants to access an IP address on another network, it references this table.
Syntax: route print
Parameters: For the purposes of this section, the print parameter is the most important. If you enter route by itself, the command’s help page displays.
The following example shows the typical output of this command:
C:\>route print
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Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x1000003 ...00 02 e3 a1 b2 c3 ...... Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Driver
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Active Routes: | Netmask | Gateway | Interface | Metric |
Network Destination | ||||
0.0.0.0 | 0.0.0.0 | 172.16.1.254 | 172.16.1.32 | 1 |
127.0.0.0 | 255.0.0.0 | 127.0.0.1 | 127.0.0.1 | 1 |
172.16.1.0 | 255.255.255.0 | 172.16.1.32 | 172.16.1.32 | 1 |
172.16.1.32 | 255.255.255.255 | 127.0.0.1 | 127.0.0.1 | 1 |
172.16.255.255 | 255.255.255.255 | 172.16.1.32 | 172.16.1.32 | 1 |
224.0.0.0 | 224.0.0.0 | 172.16.1.32 | 172.16.1.32 | 1 |
255.255.255.255 | 255.255.255.255 | 172.16.1.32 | 172.16.1.32 | 1 |
Default Gateway: | 172.16.1.254 |
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Persistent Routes: None
The following table describes labels shown in the command output:
Table 141 route print Command Output
OUTPUT | DESCRIPTION |
Active Routes | This section lists all available routes that are automatically |
| learned from the network. |
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Network Destination | The destination IP address of packets that this route entry is to |
| route. The destination can be an IP address for a network or host, |
| 0.0.0.0 for the default route or 127.0.0.0 for the loopback |
| interface which is used mainly for |
| The destination 224.0.0.0 is for multicasting packets or reserved |
| for testing. But if you are not using multicast applications, just |
| ignore it. |
| The destination 255.255.255.255 is used to find computers when |
| an IP address is not known. For example, before the DHCP IP |
| address of your computer is determined, your computer sends |
| packets with the destination looking for DHCP servers on the |
| network. |
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