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		<title>Manipulate routing tables</title>

		<indexterm><primary>manipulate routing tables</primary></indexterm>

		<para>Although it is normally not needed, as there is the

&man.routed.8; daemon for routing table management, it is in some cases very

useful to be able to dynamically define or manipulate the routing tables on the

command line. This is achieved via the &man.route.8; command. 

For example, if you want to set the default route to a

specific ip adress, you do this by using the add parameter of the route

command:</para>

	<screen>&prompt.root;<userinput>route add default 192.168.0.1</userinput>

	add net default: gateway 192.168.0.1</screen>

	<para>Additional manipulation of the routing table is done via the

<command>change</command> and <command>delete</command> parameters. Use

<command>flush</command> to clear the whole routing table.

	To receive specific information about how packages to a certain destination get

	routed, there is the <command>get</command> parameter.

	</sect2>