Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 619

NOTE: route and ip
The program route is obsolete. Use ip instead.
route is especially useful if you need quick and comprehensible information about your
routing configuration to determine problems with routing. To view your current routing
configuration, enter route -n as root.
Example 30.12 Output of the route -n Command
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway
10.20.0.0 *
link-local *
loopback *
default styx.exam.com
For more options and information about using route, enter route -h or see the route
(8) man page.
30.7.3 Start-Up Scripts
Apart from the configuration files described above, there are also various scripts that
load the network programs while the machine is booting. These are started as soon as
the system is switched to one of the multiuser runlevels. Some of these scripts are de-
scribed in Table 30.9, "Some Start-Up Scripts for Network Programs" (page 601).
Table 30.9 Some Start-Up Scripts for Network Programs
/etc/init.d/network
/etc/init.d/inetd
Genmask Flags
255.255.248.0 U
255.255.0.0 U
255.0.0.0 U
0.0.0.0 UG
This script handles the configuration of the network
interfaces. The hardware must already have been
initialized by /etc/init.d/coldplug (via
hotplug). If the network service was not started,
no network interfaces are implemented when they
are inserted via hotplug.
Starts xinetd. xinetd can be used to make server
services available on the system. For example, it
MSS Window irtt Iface
0 0 0 eth0
0 0 0 eth0
0 0 0 lo
0 0 0 eth0
Basic Networking 601