rainmancomp
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In my office, we have two internet pipes. One pipe goes through ISP 1 and the second goes through ISP 2. Upper management would like to be able to switch between providers with a .bat file if possible. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Switching Between Internet Providers 1
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LawnBoy
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I won't ask you what they hope to accomplish.
How are you directing traffic now? One router loadsharing between the two, or are they on different gateways? If on different gateways, you may be able to write a script that changes an individual PC's default gateway. One script to change from 1 to 2, another to change from 2 to 1.
I won't ask you what they hope to accomplish.How are you directing traffic now? One router loadsharing between the two, or are they on different gateways? If on different gateways, you may be able to write a script that changes an individual PC's default gateway. One script to change from 1 to 2, another to change from 2 to 1.
jimbopalmer
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Read up on Dual WAN routers and show management they can switch without a .BAT file
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LawnBoy
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Then a couple of scripts would be the cheap and easy way. I don't do much win32 scripting, but here's a link that'll get you started:
Good luck.
Good luck.
mantastic36
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You could create two .bat files named properly...
One that would delete the default route and then add a default route for the new gateway...
For example if One Gateway was 192.168.0.1 and the new gateway you were trying to acquire was 192.168.0.2... You could run the following... (You can run a route print from command prompt to confirm the mask is correct).
route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2
Then if you wanted to switch back to original gateway just reverse the entries... as such.
route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
Hope this helps.
Dave
One that would delete the default route and then add a default route for the new gateway...
For example if One Gateway was 192.168.0.1 and the new gateway you were trying to acquire was 192.168.0.2... You could run the following... (You can run a route print from command prompt to confirm the mask is correct).
route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2
Then if you wanted to switch back to original gateway just reverse the entries... as such.
route delete 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2
route add 0.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1
Hope this helps.
Dave
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