Trouble with route.exe

[jvernaci]

Here's my problem; I'm setting up a vpn connection and doing all of the routing entries manually to route only partial traffic through the vpn connection. I need to find a way to clean or clear out the table shown with route print, but route.exe does not use wildcards as microsoft advertised. I'm using the command

route delete 10.* and it tells me
The route deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect.

Any hints to what I'm doing wrong?

 

[bcastner]

A guess:

route -f delete 10.* mask 255.*

 

[jvernaci]

-f clears the gateway entries which generally breaks any connection to exchange or any mapped drives. route delete 10.* mask 255.* gives states bad mask, while route delete 10.* mask 255.0.0.0 gives another paramter is incorrect. I'm beginning to wonder if the program doesn't work. I've also found out that the same problem occurs on 2k3 so it is not platform specific. I also have not found a way to reset the routing tables through netsh.