You can also use ip route to replace a route (don't need to delete and add):
ip route replace default via <IP> dev <interface name>




2018-02-02 14:29 GMT-02:00 Terry Barnaby <ter...@beam.ltd.uk>:

> I tied using "ip route" it had the same effect.
>
>
> On 02/02/18 14:21, Bill Shirley wrote:
>
> Use 'ip' and add the dev parameter:
> ip route add default 173.xxx.yyy.zzz dev ccast
>
> man route:
> NOTE
>        This program is obsolete. For replacement check ip route.
>
> Bill
>
> On 2/2/2018 8:42 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
> A strange one this. I was trying to change the default route of a machine
> for testing a different gateway.
>
> I ran:
>
> route del default gw <gateway1>
>
> route add default gw <gateway2>
>
> However the second command did not add the route and I could not add the
> old default route back. There were no errors on stdout or in
> /var/log/messages.
>
> Now I found that if there is already a default route you can add another
> one, so could do a:
>
> route add default gw <gateway2>
>
> route del default gw <gateway2>
>
> And these worked fine. It seems you cannot set a default route if there
> isn't one set.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
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