Cell Relay Archive

[James Poon Kum Whye <karijini@singnet.com.sg>]

I have experienced the same problem before, in my case, it has something to
do with  ICMP Router Discovery Protocol ( IRDP ). In Windows98, this
feature ( IRDP )  is enabled by default.
This causes some of my PCs, with Windows98 or Winsock2 installed, to lose
its gateway in approximately 30 minutes. ( The default holdtime for IRDP ).

This was caused by having more than one router connected to the same
segment, with IRDP configured on its interfaces. In my case, I have two
Cisco Routers that is running HSRP on its ATM interfaces, as well as IRDP
configured on the same interfaces. TO cut a long story short, I changed the
default settings for IRDP to the following settings:


default setting     new setting
 a. mininum advertisement interval (sec)
450                         45
 b. maximun advertisement interval (sec)
600                         60
 c. holdtime
1800                         60
 d. preference
0                        200



dryda@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Has anyone experience a problem with windows 98 losing it's gateway? We
> are running a Windows DHCP server and have been testing out windows 98
> on a few of are notebooks and desktops. They both lose their gateway, I
> can manual add the gateway back by using "route add" in a DOS prompt,
> then run winipcfg, release all and then renew all without a problem.
> Also we are running FORE ASX, Powerhub and 3810's. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
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