Can you set up Static Routes in Windows ?

[VicRic]

Hi.

Is it possible in Windows to set up additional routes, or say, 'extra default gateways' ?

In Red Hat Linux you have an option to set up 'static routes' for any of your networking ports (i.e. eth0).

Take a look of this:

http://www.labtestproject.com/linnet/routing.html

So, for instance in my case, I have at home 2 little routers:
- 1 wireless router (192.168.1.1) that connects to the internet; and
- 1 Linux machine (192.168.1.2) that works as a gateway to a local network (192.168.0.x)

I'm setting up another Fedora machine (192.168.1.10) to use:
- a 'Static Route' of 192.168.1.2 when it needs to access addresses in the 192.168.0.x range, and
- a 'Default Gateway' of 192.168.1.1 for all the rest of addresses, v.g. access to the internet.

Does Windows allow you to do this ?

Thnx

 

[DelJo63]

Hi.

Is it possible in Windows to set up additional routes, or say, 'extra default gateways' ?

In Red Hat Linux you have an option to set up 'static routes' for any of your networking ports (i.e. eth0).

this is an INTERFACE (nic), not a port

Take a look of this:

http://www.labtestproject.com/linnet/routing.html

So, for instance in my case, I have at home 2 little routers:
- 1 wireless router (192.168.1.1) that connects to the internet; and
- 1 Linux machine (192.168.1.2) that works as a gateway to a local network (192.168.0.x)

I'm setting up another Fedora machine (192.168.1.10) to use:
- a 'Static Route' of 192.168.1.2 when it needs to access addresses in the 192.168.0.x range, and
- a 'Default Gateway' of 192.168.1.1 for all the rest of addresses, v.g. access to the internet.

Does Windows allow you to do this ?

Thnx

XP/Pro will allow ROUTE ADD to effech changes in the routing, but changing
the subnet mask will suffice AND it is host OS independent

see this article

edit: and yes, you can set static IP addresses to a NIC