Problems deleting a route

Hi All.
Firstly, sorry if these are the wrong groups.....

I am trying to configure a Loopback adapter to allow propepr ip connectivity
to a Foundry Loadbalancer. As part of the documetnation it tells you to
give it an IP then remove the public route using the route delete comand.

Unfortunalely this dows not seem to work on my Windows 2003 servers.

Here is everythign i have tried, alond with the full routing table etc...
Note: I am familiar with routign, its implications etc....

Any pointers as to what i am doign wrong would be massively appreciated. I
really hope you are not going to tell me that on Win2003 you cannot delete a
route to a statically connected lan.

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(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route print

IPv4 Route Table
================================================== =========================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...02 00 4c 4f 4f 50 ...... Microsoft Loopback Adapter
0x10004 ...00 0e 7f ad 89 c1 ...... HP NC7781 Gigabit Server Adapter #2
0x10005 ...00 0e 7f ad 89 c2 ...... HP NC7781 Gigabit Server Adapter
================================================== =========================
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 212.135.8.129 212.135.8.182 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
195.40.70.0 255.255.255.240 195.40.70.8 195.40.70.8 30
195.40.70.0 255.255.255.240 195.40.70.10 195.40.70.10 20
195.40.70.8 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 30
195.40.70.10 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
195.40.70.255 255.255.255.255 195.40.70.8 195.40.70.8 30
195.40.70.255 255.255.255.255 195.40.70.10 195.40.70.10 20
212.135.8.128 255.255.255.192 212.135.8.182 212.135.8.182 20
212.135.8.182 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20
212.135.8.255 255.255.255.255 212.135.8.182 212.135.8.182 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 195.40.70.8 195.40.70.8 30
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 195.40.70.10 195.40.70.10 20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 212.135.8.182 212.135.8.182 20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 195.40.70.8 195.40.70.8 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 195.40.70.10 195.40.70.10 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 212.135.8.182 212.135.8.182 1
Default Gateway: 212.135.8.129
================================================== =========================
Persistent Routes:
None

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route delete 195.40.70.0
The route specified was not found.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route delete 195.40.70.0 mask
255.255.25
5.240
The route specified was not found.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route delete 195.40.70.0 mask
255.255.25
5.250 195.40.70.8
The route specified was not found.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route delete 195.40.70.0 mask
255.255.25
5.250 195.40.70.8 IF 5
The route specified was not found.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>route delete 195.40.70.0 mask
255.255.25
5.250 195.40.70.8 IF 0x10005
The route specified was not found.
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The right syntax is "route delete 195.40.70.0". It does work under Win 2003
Server.

Hi Martin,

This deletion will delete both of your routes as well, so you will need to
either re-add the routes you want, disable - enable the NIC, or reboot the
server to get the routes back in.


Thank you,
Matthew Fresoli
Microsoft Network Support
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I had this same problem. I figured out that my problem was I did not
specify the interface. If you are trying to delete a round on an
interface other than #1 then you have to specify. Here is what you
probably need to use...


route delete 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 metric 1 if 1

Ahh, I take my last post back ;-) I had to add the route and delete
it. That must be a bug in 2003