Windows manual route

But when you access the Internet using your web browser, it will use the wireless adapter instead because of the lower metric. As you can see, both adapters are being used together but for different purposes depending on the network protocol. If for some reasons you do not want to use the automatic metric feature, it is possible to either permanently or temporarily change the metric for the adapter in the routing table. NetRouteView is probably the only 3rd party tool that works very well that can even support the new Windows This small and portable tool allows you to easily add, modify or delete route entries in Windows.

However you must remember that you cannot change the metric to a lower number than the original metric due to the method used by NetRouteView in changing the metric.

Download NetRouteView. The route. This is in fact the same method used by NetRouteView to change the metric and has a restriction of not being able to set any metric number you want, especially lower than the current metric. In our example, the IP for the Ethernet adapter is The Ethernet adapter has an interface number 7 and metric To increase the metric for an Ethernet adapter with an IP of An example:.

As you can see, the route change command does not replace the current metric with 5 but instead the 5 will be used to add to the current metric 20, making it This method is different from the above because it disables the Windows automatic metric feature and overwrites the current metric with any number including smaller than the current value.

Moreover, this method is a permanent setting that survives the computer reboot. Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Specifies ping continue sending echo Request messages to the destination until interrupted.

Specifies reverse name resolution be performed on the destination IP address. If this is successful, ping displays the corresponding host name. Specifies the length, in bytes, of the Data field in the echo Request messages. The default is The maximum size is 65, The echo Request message can't be fragmented by routers in the path to the destination.

The default is the default TTL value for the host. After the switch, all IP traffic originating from any network adapter on this computer destined for remote networks will be sent to the currently selected gateway. On disjointed networks, this can lead to lost connectivity and subsequent termination of active sessions with computers on remote networks connected through the first gateway.

This is because the currently selected gateway may be unaware of other routes managed by the first gateway if those routers do not exchange routing information to each other. If the switched gateway is unreachable or inactive on the network, it loses connectivity to all remote sites. At this point, a ping to this computer from a remote network will fail to get a positive response. Similarly, any outgoing ping to a remote host from this computer will give a Request timed out error.

Consider a computer with two network cards, Netcard1 and Netcard2, and the following IP addresses and default gateways:. Netcard1: IP Address: For any further help you can use the built in help the route command provides. Simply type route and hit enter. Check out this article for more cool Windows CLI commands.

First start by opening a CMD prompt by going to start then typing cmd. If this is used in conjunction with one of the commands, the tables are cleared prior to running the command. By default, routes are not preserved when the system is restarted.