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Best way to get default outgoing IP address on Linux

2 points| pavel_odintsov | 2 years ago |pavel.network

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bediger4000|2 years ago

Someone needs to disabuse folks of the idea of a "default outgoing" interface and address. It just doesn't make sense.

pavel_odintsov|2 years ago

It's very useful information for many low level network application. There are clearly many cases when such information is not useful but there are cases you cannot do without having this information in place.