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Windows Routing Software

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  • 15-03-2005 5:35pm
    #1
    byrnenj
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    Hi,

    Does anybody know of any free / shareware routing software for windows XP?
    Basicly, I am running some tests on a machine and I have 5 network cards in it. Windows doesn't seem to be able to handle the routing. It seems to be assigning the same metric to everything and even when I change them, it changes them back and gets more confused.
    I don't think XP was designed to be able to handle what I'm doing but I need to do this on a windows machine.

    Thanks!


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    XP home or pro ?

    USE AS A ROUTER :

    even windows 98 can route across multiple NIC's ;)
    it can also have several IP address per NIC
    95 has these settings too but blue screens if you try to enable routing with two NIC's installed

    NT 4 used to have a Routing button in TCP/IP properties but now it's a reg hack

    http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/w2kprout.html

    also look at the netsh command at the dos prompt

    SETTING UP ROUTES

    look up the -p and metric commands in ROUTE at the command prompt
    real pain in the neck

    If you ever come across some source based routing for windows please let me know.


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    osmethod
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    Xp Pro (I don't know about home) is able to be used as a multihomed router.

    The Resourcekit help file....

    http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prcc_tcp_qpzj.asp

    You may need to look in the registry for...

    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\IPEnableRouter

    This enables ip routing for all installed network connections.

    Set its value to 1. If it doesn't exist creat it as a Reg_Dword type.

    osmethod

    p.s. let us know how you get on....


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    #4
    byrnenj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 566 ✭✭✭byrnenj


    Hi All,

    I set IPEnableRouter to 1 but it didn't seem to make much difference.

    I then set a persistance route in the routing table :
    route -p change 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 metric 2 if 4
    That made it work.

    192.168.0.1 was already set as the default route in the routing table and I had edited the metrics before to make that route the lowest metric for 0.0.0.0 but it never worked until i set it as a persistant route.

    Thanks for you help lads!


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