How to delete an IP route?

Question

How to delete a route like the one below from a UNIX server?

122.252.228.38/255.255.255.255  122.252.228.38     UH        0  lan4       4136

Solution

You haven't included which system you're on or which tool-set you're using, but the two most common commands for managing the routing tables are the route and ip commands.

Here is how you might remove the route by using the route command (from the net-tools package):

route del -net 122.252.228.38 netmask 255.255.255.255

And here is how you might delete the same route using the ip command (from the iproute2 package):

ip route del 122.252.228.38/32

Comments

[Admin]

What Unix is this on. It may differ depending on Unix flavour.

[Admin]

Please also add the command that you used to generate this output.

[Sandwich]

Do not follow this advice, it will nuke all entries for a specified devices and will likely ruin your day/week/month, potentially locking your out of the system your are managing, and require an on-site console. sudo ip addr flush dev DEVICE is WAY too greedy for the problem at hand! The question just wants to remove a single entry! flush (as written) will remove ALL ENTRIES for a device!!!!!

[Boško Bezik]

DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE! The second command will RUIN YOUR DAY! DO NOT EXECUTE IT, it will literally remove all your route table entries!