static route does not save after reboot

[Darin]

We have enabled a new VPN tunnel in our organization for
an exchange server off-site.

I add the tunnel via the following command line:

"route add 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 {local router
IP here}"

If I do a:

"route print"

Then I see it in the list. The tunnel works great until
I reboot, and I find that the:

"route print"

command no longer displays the route I've just added in
the lines above. This is horrible. I have admin
priviledges on all of the machines. It does this on all
of the XP professional machines as well as all of the XP
Home edition. Please help.

-D

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

We have enabled a new VPN tunnel in our organization for
an exchange server off-site.

I add the tunnel via the following command line:

"route add 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 {local router
IP here}"

If I do a:

"route print"

Then I see it in the list. The tunnel works great until
I reboot, and I find that the:

"route print"

command no longer displays the route I've just added in
the lines above. This is horrible. I have admin
priviledges on all of the machines. It does this on all
of the XP professional machines as well as all of the XP
Home edition. Please help.

-D

Add the "-p" flag, which tells the system to make the route persistent
across boots:

route -p add 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 {local router IP here}

For full details of the command:

route /?
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