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Linux default route in routing table in VB with NAT

The routing table has the following entries by default with Virtual Box is used with NAT.


 Destination
 Gateway Meaning
 0.0.0.0     10.0.2.2 The traffic to any undefined network/IP address will be forwarded to the default gateway at 10.0.2.2   
 10.0.2.0     0.0.0.0 The traffic to the network 10.0.2.0/24 does not need any special gateway. The traffic can be directly forwarded.  
 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 The Link-Local address. If a DHCP server is not available, the server broadcast the it's own IP assignment using the link local address.
See ARP.  
 172.17.0.0 0.0.0.0The docker bridge since this machine has docker installed.

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