default-gateway

  

Obtains the machine's default gateway through exec calls to OS routing ints.

- On Linux and Android, the ip command must be available (usually provided by the iproute2 package).
- On Unix (and macOS), the netstat command must be available.
- On Windows, wmic must be available.
- On IBM i, the db2util command must be available (provided by the db2util package).

Usage

``js
import {gateway4async, gateway4sync, gateway6async, gateway6sync} from "default-gateway";

const {gateway, version, int} = await gateway4async();
// gateway = '1.2.3.4', version = 4, int = 'en1'

const {gateway, version, int} = await gateway6async();
// gateway = '2001:db8::1', version = 6,int = 'en2'

const {gateway, version, int} = gateway4sync();
// gateway = '1.2.3.4', version = 4, int = 'en1'

const {gateway, version, int} = gateway6sync();
// gateway = '2001:db8::1', version = 6, int = 'en2'
`

API

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Returns: result Object
- gateway String: The IP address of the default gateway.
- version Number: The IP address version of gateway.
- int String: The name of the interface. On Windows, this is the network adapter name.

The gateway property will always be defined on success, while int can be null` if it cannot be determined. All methods reject/throw on unexpected conditions.

License

© silverwind, distributed under BSD licence