IPSEC-SHOWROUTE(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ipsec-showroute — she shows you the route to a given address, and honestly? that's the whole vibe 💅

(it lives in the Executable programs corner of the manual, so it's ipsec-showroute(8) bestie — section 8, admin girlies only 😌)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ipsec showroute [--interface] [--source] [--gateway] [--destination]
      [--debug] [--ipv4] [--ipv6] {IP address}

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so showroute outputs — on standard output, where else — the source, interface, gateway, and destination address for the IP address you handed it. Four little facts about your route, all lined up, no drama, no cap 🫶

And the flags? Look at the synopsis up there: you've got --interface, --source, --gateway, --destination, --debug, --ipv4, --ipv6, and then the {IP address} — which is the whole point of the exercise, so like, don't forget her 🙈

it's giving "I just wanna know where this packet is going" and she ate 🔥

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🌈 HISTORY 🌈

• The command was added in Libreswan version 4.8 ⭐
• Interface support was added in Libreswan version 5.4 🦋 (glow up fr fr)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andrew Cagney, Tuomo Soini — legends, we thank them for their service 🫡💖

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go route something 🌸

Libreswan 5.4.1 · 10/23/2026 — that's the source, version, and date, mwah, bye 💅✨