Route command description, tutorial, extraneous entries....

Hi Chaps,

Has been a long time since I did any work on networking,
and yes I've searched ms knowledge base but not found
sufficient detail on defintion of metric and relation
to application programs requesting sockets in reference
to the routing table and how this gets out to the
modem then onto the net...etc

I'm looking for a definitive reference on the route dos
command in windows 98se, especially describing the
seemingly extraneous entries for a single network
card connection to an adsl modem... ie.


Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.105 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.105 192.168.1.105 1
192.168.1.105 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.105 192.168.1.105 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.105 192.168.1.105 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.105 192.168.1.105 1

I'm specifically interested in why I need to add (eg) ICSMGR
when it cant just be routed from say another network card,

I guess ICSMGR provides a bridge between the two network
interfaces but how this affects the route table, given I
need to get up to speed with each and every entry in the
table and why it is the way it is as default starting point <sigh>

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Regards
Mike
VL Commodore, Calais VL Turbo FuseRail that wont warp or melt !
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