Hi,

I was window OS user and kinda switched to darwin-bash/Mac OS recently, just asking for some help for setting up routes.

When i was using in window XP i can do "route print" and "route add 64.25.55.200 mask 255.255.255.255 188.17.145.178" ,and then when i access 64.25.55.200, it will route through 188.17.145.178 gateway.


So here I am asking how to do similar thing through Mac OS/Darwin-bash terminal? I am asking this because the example for unix i see on the website is like the following:

# route add 192.168.1.100 10.0.0.1
add host 192.168.1.100: gateway 10.0.0.1

so i dont need to give any "mask" like

route add 64.25.55.200 mask 255.255.255.255 188.17.145.178 in windows??


I tried netstat command in unix and did not see the netmask section. I wonder how to display it out.

In windows i typed netstat print , it looks like

Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.100 30
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1


but in unix i typed netstat -nr , it looks like

Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 10.0.0.1 UGS 2 146537336 fxp0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 3414961 lo0
10.0.0.1/26 link#1 UC 0 0 fxp0
10.0.0.2 00:02:b3:4c:65:27 UHLW 0 255732 lo0
10.0.0.1 00:02:7d:cc:3d:00 UHLW 1 0 fxp0 1087


how can i display the netmask section? and why Gateway is 00:02:7d:cc:3d:00 ??? isnt gateway should be like ip address format???


i am a bit confused and if any mac professionals plz help me >_< out

try something like this
route add -net 1.1.1.0/24 gw 1.1.1.1

err, to have a netmask of 255.255.255.0 if you want a netmask of 255.255.255.255 (single ip) just use
route add 10.10.10.10 gw 11.11.11.11

edit;
another note, to just list routes type only
route