IPSEC_SHOWROUTE(8)

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💅 IPSEC_SHOWROUTE(8) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so this is ipsec_showroute, part of the libreswan family of manual pages (section 8, executable programs — yes that 8 matters, that's how you know it's a system-admin situation 🫶).

✨ NAME ✨

ipsec_showroute — literally just shows you the route to a given address. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

so yeah — you call ipsec showroute, you sprinkle in whichever flags you want from that little list, and then you hand it an IP address in curly braces style. easy. iconic. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, here's the tea: showroute outputs — on standard output, so please don't come for me about it going anywhere else — the source, gateway, and destination address for the specified IP address.

that's it. that's the function. three addresses and a dream. ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

here are all the flags from the synopsis, kept exactly as written, no edits, no merges, no "helpful" renaming — i would never 🙈

  • --source — the source one 💫
  • --gateway — the gateway one 🚪
  • --destination — the destination one 🎯
  • --debug — for when you want the extra chatter 🐛
  • --ipv4 — the IPv4 one, 4 is right there in the name 🍓
  • --ipv6 — and the IPv6 one, 6, equally right there 🌈
ngl the page itself doesn't spell out per-flag behaviour, so i'm not gonna sit here and invent it for you — i'm keeping it 100% to what's actually written. the options are real, the vibes are mine 💅

💜 HISTORY 💜

added to Libreswan in 2022. a modern classic, fr fr. 👑

😭 AUTHOR 😭

Andrew Cagney — and the page flat-out says placeholder to suppress warning, which is honestly the most relatable author credit i've ever seen in a manpage. the way that a single line of documentation did its job and clocked out 💀

🌺 SEE ALSO 🌺

none listed on this page, bestie. this is a solo main-character page. 🧚

and that's a wrap ✨ — sourced from libreswan, manual page dated 10/19/2026, page id IPSEC_SHOWROUTE(8). stay routed, stay hydrated, and remember: --ipv4 and --ipv6 are not the same flag, no matter what your group chat tells you 🫶💖

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