Arguments:

• to ADDRESS (default)

  -- the destination address.

• from ADDRESS

  -- the source address.

• tos TOS or dsfield TOS

  -- the Type Of Service.

• iif NAME

  -- the device from which this packet is expected to arrive.

• oif NAME

  -- force the output device on which this packet will be routed.

• connected

  -- if no source address (option from) was given, relookup the route with the source set to the preferred address received from the first lookup. If policy routing is used, it may be a different route.

Note that this operation is not equivalent to ip route show. show shows existing routes. get resolves them and creates new clones if necessary. Essentially, get is equivalent to sending a packet along this path. If the iif argument is not given, the kernel creates a route to output packets towards the requested destination. This is equivalent to pinging the destination with a subsequent ip route ls cache, however, no packets are actually sent. With the iif argument, the kernel pretends that a packet arrived from this interface and searches for a path to forward the packet.