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How to add a static route to the

Windows Routing Table
Posted on December 4, 2014 by vonnie — 2 Comments

Did you know that your router isn’t the only device with a routing table?

Yup, any device that relies on TCP/IP for network communications has a routing table –
including Windows.

Go ahead and open a command prompt (Windows Key + x + c) and type:

route print

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The output is divided into three sections:

Interfaces List Categories

IPv4 Route Table
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The Interfaces List enumerates all your interfaces by MAC address and the next two Desktops
sections list your dynamic and persistent routes for IPv4 and IPv6. Google Chrome
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Each line under Active Routes is a TCP/IP route to a network or a specific device on the
network. Internet Explorer 10
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To add a route we use the route ADD command to tell Windows which Network to add
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and then we enter the Subnet mask and Gateway.
Linux
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
But why would you ever add a static route in the first place? People often add static
Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
routes when troubleshooting routing related problems. For example, maybe you can’t
Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
ping a workstation from a server or perhaps can successfully ping that workstation but
Mobile
the ICMP echo reply chronically times out. Sometimes we can isolate networking
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problems like this by manually entering a known route. That’s where static routes come
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in.
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Outlook
So let’s say we’re on the 10.255.70.0 network and the default gateway is 10.255.70.1
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and we want to add static route to our management VLAN located on the 172.10.3.0
Safari
network.
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Assuming our subnet mask is 255.255.248.0 we could add the route like this:
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Smartphones
route ADD 172.10.3.0 MASK 255.255.248.0 10.255.70.1 Tablets
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Web Browsers
The format is as follows:
What Is
Windows
route ADD this network with this mask via this gateway IP.
Windows 10
Windows 7
The only drawback to this method is that after you reboot your static route will go poof!
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
In order to make it stay we need to make it persistent with the -p modifier. So just add a
Windows Vista
-p to the end of the route and it’ll be permenent.
Windows XP

route ADD 172.10.3.0 MASK 255.255.248.0 10.255.70.1 -p

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If later you decide to remove the static route, you can use route DELETE followed
by the destination network IP.

route DELETE 172.10.3.0

That’s it for now!

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Muawia Yasin • 8 months ago

Hi,

i want to route between my interfaces, I'm connecting to two networks

through my wireless and my Ethernet,
for example i want to route any request for 172.16.4.0/24 through my
Wireless interface, and any other 0.0.0.0 to my Ethernet, is it possible to do??
and could you please explain how to do it ?

thanks
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Joltin Joe • 9 months ago

We are using OpenVpn, when the user connects he can not see any of the
servers. IP range for VPN = 192.168.102.XXX the servers are
192.168.2.XXX is this a case where I need a static route? Sorry networking is
not my strong suit. OpenVPN is running on our corporate FW.
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