netsh routing commands fail on Windows XP Pro

27 Nov 2006 5:26 PM

Uncle Ziba

Hello,

I'm trying to run the following commands on XP pro and getting an
error. Does anybody know a way to fix it? I googled and have not
found an answer:

>netsh routing ip ospf install
Ok.

>netsh routing ip ospf add range 2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0

Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.

I'm getting similar errors for other routing protocols.

regards

27 Nov 2006 9:00 PM

John Wunderlich

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"Uncle Ziba" <uncle.z***@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1164648411.764113.158800@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to run the following commands on XP pro and getting an
> error. Does anybody know a way to fix it? I googled and have not
> found an answer:
>
>> netsh routing ip ospf install
> Ok.
>
>> netsh routing ip ospf add range 2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
> Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.
>
> I'm getting similar errors for other routing protocols.
>
> regards

Just an observation, but the syntax for the command is:
Usage: add range [areaid=]<IP address> [range=]<IP address> <IP Mask>

In your example, "2" is not the proper form of an IP address.

HTH,
John

27 Nov 2006 9:23 PM

Uncle Ziba

John Wunderlich wrote:
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> "Uncle Ziba" <uncle.z***@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:1164648411.764113.158800@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> >> netsh routing ip ospf add range 2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
> > Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.
> >
> > I'm getting similar errors for other routing protocols.
> >
> > regards
>
> Just an observation, but the syntax for the command is:
> Usage: add range [areaid=]<IP address> [range=]<IP address> <IP Mask>
>
> In your example, "2" is not the proper form of an IP address.

it is still broken with
netsh routing ip ospf add range 0.0.0.2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.

27 Nov 2006 9:51 PM

nass

Are you using this command on XP Pro 64-bit or 32-bit, I think you can't use
this routing table on 64-bit XP Pro.
Read this article and see what you make of it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch05.mspx
HTH.
Regards,
nass

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"Uncle Ziba" wrote:

>
> John Wunderlich wrote:
> > "Uncle Ziba" <uncle.z***@gmail.com> wrote in
> > news:1164648411.764113.158800@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>
> > >> netsh routing ip ospf add range 2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
> > > Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.
> > >
> > > I'm getting similar errors for other routing protocols.
> > >
> > > regards
> >
> > Just an observation, but the syntax for the command is:
> > Usage: add range [areaid=]<IP address> [range=]<IP address> <IP Mask>
> >
> > In your example, "2" is not the proper form of an IP address.
>
> it is still broken with
> netsh routing ip ospf add range 0.0.0.2 172.16.1.0 255.255.255.0
> Open Shortest Path First must be installed first.
>
>

27 Nov 2006 10:40 PM

Uncle Ziba

nass wrote:

> Are you using this command on XP Pro 64-bit or 32-bit, I think you can't use
> this routing table on 64-bit XP Pro.
> Read this article and see what you make of it:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch05.mspx

I'm fully 32 bit here. I couldn't find anywhere that this is not
supposed to work on Win XP pro. If not why would the commands be
there? I did enable RRAS service but it didn't make a difference. I
also looked around under add/remove windows components and in the help
files but didn't find anything related - no pointers other than a
message from netsh that I need to "install OSPF first"

27 Nov 2006 11:14 PM

nass

Refer to your router's documentation to see if it supports load balancing
across equal-cost OSPF routes
and what mode the OSPF brodcast, is it non-brodcast mode network?.
Did you try RIP and see if that too work, just curious.

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"Uncle Ziba" wrote:

>
> nass wrote:
> > Are you using this command on XP Pro 64-bit or 32-bit, I think you can't use
> > this routing table on 64-bit XP Pro.
> > Read this article and see what you make of it:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/evaluate/technol/tcpipfund/tcpipfund_ch05.mspx
>
> I'm fully 32 bit here. I couldn't find anywhere that this is not
> supposed to work on Win XP pro. If not why would the commands be
> there? I did enable RRAS service but it didn't make a difference. I
> also looked around under add/remove windows components and in the help
> files but didn't find anything related - no pointers other than a
> message from netsh that I need to "install OSPF first"
>
>

28 Nov 2006 12:26 AM

Uncle Ziba

nass wrote:

> Refer to your router's documentation to see if it supports load balancing
> across equal-cost OSPF routes

Hmm. It does, but what does this have to do with netsh commands not
working in XP?

> and what mode the OSPF brodcast, is it non-brodcast mode network?.
> Did you try RIP and see if that too work, just curious.

netsh routing ip rip .. commands cause the same error "RIP must be
installed first".

Found this reference
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/netsh_routing.mspx?mfr=true

It says the commands should work under XP. strange...