On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Jeff Binkley wrote:
-> I noticed today that alot of the Windows98 machines show our total controls -> hubs in their routing tables as a default route! Its got a high metric of -> 1000, and the "true" default route is set as 1, but I was curious about how -> Windows98 even knew about our total control hubs. They are on the same -> network. Anyone else notice this? Anything negative about it? How do you -> stop 98 from listening to those routes?
If you find out let me know too. We've got a customer which has two RAS servers on their LAN (one is a 3com and the other Ascend) and their routing tables show the same thing. The odd part is after awhile they won't be able toget through their default gateway (the Ascend unit) unless either they delete the route with the 1000 metric or reboot their machine. It's driving them crazy. Of course they use the Ascend to dial into us and into the Internet.
You cant fix 98.. It listens to ICMP router advertisments.. You can however stop the HARC from adertising itself via the command "DISABLE ICMP ROUTER_ADVERTISE" +--------------------------------------+ Mike Wronski (mike@coredump.ae.usr.com) 3Com Network Systems Engineer - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.