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Glossary: TCP/IP in Depth, Part 2

ip route get

A Linux command that asks the routing table which route, interface and source address it would use for a given address, without sending anything. It also shows learned details for that destination, such as a smaller path MTU a server has picked up from an ICMP "fragmentation needed" message.

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ip routelongest prefix match