Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 7 years, 9 months ago. Active 7 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 1k times. I have strange problem. I'm working with Windows 7. I add line to routing table: route -p add I have to write this line again, then prompt line answers: The route addition failed: The object already exists.
And after that I can connect to this address. It happens every time. Improve this answer. Dave Dave 2 2 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. This should be the approved answer, for me it did worked exactly as pointed at least, thanks! I tried disabling "Automatic Metric" on the IP4 settings of the adapter, but still no change in behavior. The command I am using seems to work fine on Windows XP, but not on 7.
Joel Coel Joel Coel Which dose not accomplish my goal. Corey did you read my last paragraph? Old post but I had to downvote, negative value is useless and while it's true these metrics are being entered relative to the gateway, you don't offer any real advice or solution.
To find out the interface 's Route Print Use Netsh to set the lower value on the usb wifi device interface. BrettKennard BrettKennard 31 4 4 bronze badges. This works great. It requires an elevated cmd window, and you can also address an interface by name, i. Thanks very much for this answer.
I'd like to add, we can use interface names instead of the 2 digit numbers, which can be found using this command netsh interface show interface — Shayan. So, following your example: route ADD 0. Etienne Dechamps Etienne Dechamps 2, 8 8 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. Currently it is VPN software that causes troubles for me.
It added it's The route. This is in fact the same method used by NetRouteView to change the metric and has a restriction of not being able to set any metric number you want, especially lower than the current metric. In our example, the IP for the Ethernet adapter is The Ethernet adapter has an interface number 7 and metric To increase the metric for an Ethernet adapter with an IP of An example:. As you can see, the route change command does not replace the current metric with 5 but instead the 5 will be used to add to the current metric 20, making it This method is different from the above because it disables the Windows automatic metric feature and overwrites the current metric with any number including smaller than the current value.
Moreover, this method is a permanent setting that survives the computer reboot. The steps to achieve a permanent custom metric are as follows:. Press the Start button, type ncpa. This will launch the Network Connections window listing all the available network adapters. Right click on the adapter that you want to make the changes and select Properties. If you want this adapter to be used for all Internet Protocol applications, simply set it to a very low number, for example 1.
Click OK on all open windows to apply the changes. The command line below can also be used to achieve the exact same result as above, but you must enter the exact same interface name. By default, static routes have a metric of 6. You can also optionally add a IF 2 to the end. This will force the route to use interface 2. You can see what interface numbers you have with the route print command.
To resolve this you will need administrator access to the system. Go to the start menu and when you type cmd right click on the cmd.
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