diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index faedcbc73eb..9b67c82ef2a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Description: A common package which contains files which are shared by several C
 
 Package: cloudstack-management
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${python:Depends}, openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime | openjdk-9-jre-headless, cloudstack-common (= ${source:Version}), sudo, python-mysql.connector, libmysql-java, augeas-tools, mysql-client, adduser, bzip2, ipmitool, file, lsb-release, init-system-helpers (>= 1.14~)
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, openjdk-8-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime | openjdk-9-jre-headless, cloudstack-common (= ${source:Version}), sudo, python-mysql.connector, libmysql-java, augeas-tools, mysql-client, adduser, bzip2, ipmitool, file, gawk, iproute2, lsb-release, init-system-helpers (>= 1.14~)
 Conflicts: cloud-server, cloud-client, cloud-client-ui
 Description: CloudStack server library
  The CloudStack management server
diff --git a/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec b/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
index aa096127b3b..aadf9419586 100644
--- a/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
+++ b/packaging/centos7/cloud.spec
@@ -58,12 +58,14 @@ Requires: java-1.8.0-openjdk
 Requires: python
 Requires: python3
 Requires: bash
+Requires: gawk
 Requires: bzip2
 Requires: gzip
 Requires: unzip
 Requires: /sbin/mount.nfs
 Requires: openssh-clients
 Requires: nfs-utils
+Requires: iproute
 Requires: wget
 Requires: mysql
 Requires: mysql-connector-java
diff --git a/utils/src/main/java/com/cloud/utils/net/NetUtils.java b/utils/src/main/java/com/cloud/utils/net/NetUtils.java
index fca35ad6fea..0fb055f5531 100644
--- a/utils/src/main/java/com/cloud/utils/net/NetUtils.java
+++ b/utils/src/main/java/com/cloud/utils/net/NetUtils.java
@@ -268,19 +268,7 @@ public class NetUtils {
             final String defDev = Script.runSimpleBashScript("/sbin/route -n get default 2> /dev/null | grep interface | awk '{print $2}'");
             return defDev;
         }
-        final String defaultRoute = Script.runSimpleBashScript("/sbin/route | grep default");
-
-        if (defaultRoute == null) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        final String[] defaultRouteList = defaultRoute.split("\\s+");
-
-        if (defaultRouteList.length != 8) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        return defaultRouteList[7];
+        return Script.runSimpleBashScript("ip route show default 0.0.0.0/0 | head -1 | awk '{print $5}'");
     }
 
     public static String getLocalIPString() {