How to Find Your Local Router IP Address in the Terminal

You can use your local router’s internal IP address to test if a port is blocked by your local network, internet service provider (ISP), or virtual private network (VPN). Most operating systems (OSs) – Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, etc. – with a graphical user interface (GUI) have pre-installed software that can give you this information. But if you’re working in the command line interface (CLI) on a related task, such as examining a traceroute/tracepath, knowing commands that can provide the same information improves your workflow.

Below we cover how to get your local router IP address in the terminal depending on your OS:

• Most OSs – Netstat
• Windows – ipconfig
• Linux – ip r

These commands may display multiple IP addresses if you’re connected to a VPN. Disconnect from the VPN and rerun the command to be sure which is your local router IP. On home networks, visit the IP address in your web browser (e.g. https://192.168.0.3) to ensure it displays the login page for your home router.

Get Your Local Router IP Address

Most OSs – netstat

The netstat command, pre-installed on most OSs, displays current TCP and UDP network connections with related processes. Netstat with the -r flag provides the IP routing table and internal router IP address.

netstat -r

The results will be the IP address in the first (Destination) column:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eno2

You can use route for the same results:

route -e

Windows – ipconfig

The ipconfig command will show your local network connections and information.

ipconfig

Your local router’s internal IP will show to the right of Default Gateway under your current network (wireless, ethernet, etc.):

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Linux – ip r

The ip command shows similar info to ifconfig and supersedes netstat (part of net-tools) on some Linux OSs. Replacing a with r filters the results to the IP (DNS names instead of host addresses) and interfaces while | grep filters the output to only rows including “default”.

ip r | grep default

The results will show the IP among related information:

default via 192.168.0.10 dev eno2 proto metric 100 

You can use the following commands for the same results:

ip r list | grep default

ip route | grep default

Want to learn more about the command line interface? Check out these 5 free ways to learn Linux.

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