(originally published on 15.03.2019, reviewed/rewritten on 30.03.2025, tested on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 79)
With Oracle Solaris 11.4 you are now able to give routes a name. Working with a named route makes it easier to work with them in case you want to list or manipulate them. Let’s create such a named route by adding the -name option to the route command. Everything else is as usual.
root@testbed:~# route -p add 192.168.123.0/24 192.168.122.1 -name narf
add net -name narf 192.168.123.0/24: gateway 192.168.122.1Now we can work with this route by using the name narf. For example to view the details.
root@testbed:~# route get -name narf
route to: 192.168.123.0
name: narf
destination: 192.168.123.0
mask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 192.168.122.1
interface: net0
flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC>
recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,ms rttvar,ms hopcount mtu expire
0 0 0 0 0 0 1500 0 You can use it as well to delete the route:
root@testbed:~# route -p delete -name narf
delete net -name narf 192.168.123.0/24: gateway 192.168.122.1With a consistent naming scheme on all your systems you can definitely make your life easier when you work with routes.
