Vista and default gateway problem...

MelonStrings · 5 Jan 2007 at 15:53

Hi,

I've got a problem with Vista's network connection on my wired LAN connection. My DHCP server gives out a gateway... as it should... fine... but I have specified a default gateway in the connection settings that is different. On XP this is fine... works with no issue... but on Vista... it always adds the route to the DHCP gateway above my specified gateway in the routing table... If I do an ipconfig then my specified gateway is above the DHCP supplied gateway... but I don't know why this is reversed in the routing table...

As both gateways are internet facing everything still works, but the DHCP supplied gateway is on a really slow connection to the t'internet... I have to manually delete the route everytime I connect to the network... It's driving me nuts as sometimes I forget... I don't really want to automate the deleting of the route as then I'd have to bypass UAC or click on the allow program prompt each time...

Any ideas on how to make Vista's routing table match the one generated in XP?

Changing the gateway on the DHCP server is not an option by the way as this is a business network.

Cheers,
Melon.

bitslice · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:44

maybe get the DHCP server to recognise your MAC address, and issue you a different gateway ?

I do this for PC's I don't want to have net access.
they get assigned a duff gateway

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MelonStrings · 15 Jan 2007 at 12:01

bitslice said:
maybe get the DHCP server to recognise your MAC address, and issue you a different gateway ?

I do this for PC's I don't want to have net access.
they get assigned a duff gateway

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Hi,

Thanks, but I can't do that either, I should have specified, but I can't change anything on the DHCP server, it is a work server and I'm not the admin.

I can only change things on my machine...

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Melon.

bitslice · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:14

you could script a gateway change, but as you say, that may give you a prompt from vista (I've not got that OS to test)

as a bodge, run the script as admin:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?page_id=164&page=1
you won't get a prompt then

If you have access to alternative gateways, then I'd have thought the admin would have set up his DHCP server to fix the problem.
It's kinda what admins are supposed to do surely ? :confused:

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