I currently have a route in my broken linux machine that does not show up in my working linux machine when I type in ip route.I don't want the post to be duplicate so check my older threads.Will deleting the route be useful or will it break my distro more?
How safe is it to delete a route? Would it cause problems?
networking;iproute
Changing network configuration can be done in two ways:You can change the configuration files for your network and re-run the scripts that apply that configuration, or restart the service that manages the network (e.g., the network-manager service). This makes permanent changes, in that the change will be applied after your next reboot as well.You can run commands that directly manipulate the kernel, rather than making changes in the configuration file; e.g., you could run something like ip route del default, which removes your default route (if there is only one default route, that is).In the first case, if you do something wrong, then you are likely to cause issues for your installation that may be difficult to fix. In the second case, however, this is not true; all that's needed is to restart either the networking subsystem (with its unmodified configuration), or the computer as a whole, to get the old situation back.If your computer is having trouble reaching the network, and it has a route that another computer on the same network which has no trouble reaching the network does not have, then yes, removing that route may be a good idea. This can be done with the ip command, too:ip route del XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/XX via ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZwhere XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/XX is a network address, and ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ is the gateway for that route. If that fixes your problem, then change the network configuration and make the change permanent. If it doesn't fix your problem, simply reapply the old configuration by restarting the network subsystem or your computer as a whole.