Viewing the Routing Table with show ip route

When you want to see what routes the device currently knows, use show ip route. It displays the routing table — the per-destination path information held by a router or layer-3 switch.

The syntax is show ip route, in privileged EXEC mode.

Running show ip route lists each destination network with a code showing how the route was learned (directly connected, static, dynamic routing, and so on).

A common stumble is failing to notice an expected route is missing from the list — the real cause behind "only this one network is unreachable."

In real work, checking whether the route even exists is the basic first step of troubleshooting when something cannot be reached.