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Chrysalis · 15-01-2012, 15:50

the windows route command.

My physical setup was something like this.

VM modem connected to dir615, dir615 connected to a gigabit switch (is a router but on my lan functions as a switch), adsl router connected to that same gigabit switch. cable from that gigabit switch to pc.

Configuration wise, its probably important to have both adsl and cable routers on the same subnet.

Then windows you configure one of them as your default gateway, pick one or the other. You can then add another gateway in the advanced tcp/ip config and set it a metric, the default metric is 10, a lower number is higher priority and a higher number is lower priority, so if you add a 2nd with metric 20 then the default gateway will be used unless it goes down.

Now you can do things like toggle the metric of the 2nd gateway to change the effective default gateway however what makes it much better is the route command. You can eg. set a route to 8.8.8.8 on the 2nd gateway with a metric value of 5 and that would route all google dns requests over that gateway whilst all other stuff still goes to the other gateway.

15-01-2012, 15:50	#16
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,048	Re: Can anything be done about jitter and packet loss the windows route command. My physical setup was something like this. VM modem connected to dir615, dir615 connected to a gigabit switch (is a router but on my lan functions as a switch), adsl router connected to that same gigabit switch. cable from that gigabit switch to pc. Configuration wise, its probably important to have both adsl and cable routers on the same subnet. Then windows you configure one of them as your default gateway, pick one or the other. You can then add another gateway in the advanced tcp/ip config and set it a metric, the default metric is 10, a lower number is higher priority and a higher number is lower priority, so if you add a 2nd with metric 20 then the default gateway will be used unless it goes down. Now you can do things like toggle the metric of the 2nd gateway to change the effective default gateway however what makes it much better is the route command. You can eg. set a route to 8.8.8.8 on the 2nd gateway with a metric value of 5 and that would route all google dns requests over that gateway whilst all other stuff still goes to the other gateway.