add function to get the default route

[nzjrs]

a wrapper around the command ip route

[giampaolo]

Are you interested in the default gateway?

[nzjrs]

I'm actually interested in the device from which default traffic will be
routed

default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth1 proto static

On 12 December 2015 at 12:24, giampaolo notifications@github.com wrote:

Are you interested in the default gateway?

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[giampaolo]

Closing as duplicate of #667. In the meantime you might want to take a look at netifaces lib which provides info about the gateways: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces

[nzjrs]

Is it really a dupe if I want the device and not the IP?

On 14 December 2015 at 19:01, giampaolo notifications@github.com wrote:

Closing as duplicate of #667
#667. In the meantime you
might want to take a look at netifaces lib which provides info about the
gateways: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces

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[giampaolo]

Please try to describe what you would expect in terms of API.
netifaces do this:

>>> import netifaces
>>> netifaces.gateways()
{2: [('10.0.1.1', 'en0', True), ('10.2.1.1', 'en1', False)], 30: [('fe80::1', 'en0', True)], 'default': { 2: ('10.0.1.1', 'en0'), 30: ('fe80::1', 'en0') }}

...on my machine:

>>> netifaces.gateways()
{'default': {2: ('10.0.0.1', 'wlan0')}, 2: [('10.0.0.1', 'wlan0', True)]}
>>> 

I'm asking this because it is not entirely clear to me how network gateways work.

[ofirule]

It's really missing.
Reading all routes which may include static routes, and not only the interface gw is very usefull