Route Change Command Does Not Indicate Error
Article ID: 147232
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q147232
SYMPTOMS
When you use ROUTE CHANGE and enter a non-existent route, no error message
appears to indicate that the route does not exist.
For example, if you enter the following:
route change 199.199.24.0 mask 255.255.255.0 157.57.8.1 metric 1
and your Route table looks like the table below, no error message appears
that indicates you have an incorrect route:
Active Routes:
Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Interface Metric
------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 157.57.8.1 157.57.8.214 1
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
157.57.8.0 255.255.248.0 157.57.8.214 157.57.8.214 1
157.57.8.214 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
157.57.255.255 255.255.255.255 157.57.8.214 157.57.8.214 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 157.57.8.214 157.57.8.214 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 157.57.8.214 157.57.8.214 1
CAUSE
The ROUTE CHANGE command does not check the validity of the network address
that you enter.
RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, use ROUTE PRINT to make sure that the change
to the route has been done correctly.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
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