Route Command

Hi,

Using Route to add Multiple Gateways, in command
console are you supplying an machine IP address and
gateway Ip address each time you enter a new route as so:

C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.1

C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.2

So in this example I have the machine IP address set for
10.0.0.75 with two default gateways. Is this correct in
setting up Multiple gateways? and the metric I am
gathering if used gives like a more priority of one
gateway over another,correct?

Thanks,

Pete

Pete,

You are mostly correct here - the "metric" option will assign a preference
to the gateway to determine which one is used; the lower the number, the
higher its priority. (If the metric is not explicitly assigned, it will be
given a metric of 1.) You also need to add the "-p" command to make the
route persistent, or else the route will be removed from memory whenever the
server is rebooted. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...taticRoute.htm
for more information.

Hope this helps,

Laura


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"Pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1afb501c41f75$749f2d00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Using Route to add Multiple Gateways, in command
> console are you supplying an machine IP address and
> gateway Ip address each time you enter a new route as so:
>
> C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.1
>
> C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.2
>
> So in this example I have the machine IP address set for
> 10.0.0.75 with two default gateways. Is this correct in
> setting up Multiple gateways? and the metric I am
> gathering if used gives like a more priority of one
> gateway over another,correct?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
>

There is only 1 problem with this. The default route is normally chosen
only once. This makes the second gateway unused. There is dead gateway
detection that would use the second default gateway, but it is only good for
TCP connections.

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"Laura E. Hunter [MVP]" <hunter(nospamplease)@sfs.upenn.edu> wrote in
message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Pete,
>
> You are mostly correct here - the "metric" option will assign a preference
> to the gateway to determine which one is used; the lower the number, the
> higher its priority. (If the metric is not explicitly assigned, it will
be
> given a metric of 1.) You also need to add the "-p" command to make the
> route persistent, or else the route will be removed from memory whenever
the
> server is rebooted. See
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...taticRoute.htm
> for more information.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Laura
>
>
> --
> ************************************
> Laura E. Hunter - MCSE, MVP
> Replies to newsgroup only
>
> "Pete" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1afb501c41f75$749f2d00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using Route to add Multiple Gateways, in command
> > console are you supplying an machine IP address and
> > gateway Ip address each time you enter a new route as so:
> >
> > C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.1
> >
> > C:\>route add 10.0.0.75 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.12.2
> >
> > So in this example I have the machine IP address set for
> > 10.0.0.75 with two default gateways. Is this correct in
> > setting up Multiple gateways? and the metric I am
> > gathering if used gives like a more priority of one
> > gateway over another,correct?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pete
> >
>
>