Verify the default gateway for Messaging Gateway via command line

Products

• Messaging Gateway

Issue/Introduction

• You do not have access to the Brightmail Control Center and want to verify the default gateway on a Symantec Brightmail Gateway
• You want to temporarily change the default gateway to connect to the server.

 

Environment

Messaging Gateway

Resolution

To verify the default gateway:

1. Log into the console as the admin account
2. Type: route and press enter
3. The output will look similar to:
   
   Kernel IP routing table
   Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
   192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
   169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
   default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

To change the default gateway, see the article TECH153942

Note: The change is not persistent across reboots and will be reset at the next appliance restart. It would be best if you used the Command Center interface to make permanent changes.

To make changes via the control center(Permanent) TECH171554