Routing & Creating a Route

[GeneC]

Anyone know how to create a route between 2 computers on the net? I'm using NT at my end and the other comuter is in the UK but whenever I do a tracert to the UK computer I'm routed all over the US before getting to the UK I want to route it directly if possible.

Thanks
Gene

[M. A. Dockter]

As far as I know, routing is handled by all the internet server/routing hubs, such as the ones that belong to the ISP of your ISP. For exaple, High Speed Access corp gives my Internet Service Provider, Charter Communications, access to give us access to the internet.

[GeneC]

Yes that is true but you're not limited to using thier routing tables, if you're using any OS such as NT, Unix, Zenix, and I assume Linux since it was built/cloned from Unix you can create your own routing tables or at the very least create a route from your system to any other system on the net using (In NT anyway) The ROUTE command. I've been playing with TCP/IP and the route command but When I type it in like the examples show I just get the help screen for route and it scrolls by so fast that I miss the first page. :-( I'm trying to reach an FTP server in the UK but my packets are being routed to Baltimore, then out to Palo Alto, CA, then on to New York and then FINALLY over to the UK, for some reason the screwy routers think that's the fastest path to the UK, I would like to inform them otherwise. :-)

[bob]

I do not thing the internet will ever support an IP source routing.

That would be like telling the postal service which route to take your letter.

The route command will only route to the next/fitst hop.

Change the # lines displayed in the dos window to see all the info in the route /help command


You will not ever be able to force a route unless you want to call the owners of the hops you want to use and get a static route installed on their routers. The odds of them returning your call are very low.

[Statica]

Your seriously considering changing routing tables across the Atlantic??
Better solutions might be to .. do ISD calling modem to modem .. or how about becoming a backbone provider single-hopping UK-wherever u are??

[GeneC]

Hey, it was just a thought. Maybe I misunderstood the instructor & Microsoft during TCP/IP class. Or during my reading. What, with all the routers that're in place nowadays and how outdated the microsoft material is, it's not a wonder I got something mistaken. ;-)

[bob]

There is a highspeed backbone of the internet. It uses a routing protocol that understands the difference between a slower link and a higher speed link. Each router - once it gets a packet destioned for same UK network must determine the best path. Basically 5 hops on the backbone is better than 2 hops over even a T3 connection. Windows use RIP that only counts hops. The internet uses bandwidth, line state, hops, etc.

Hope that helps. It is much more complicated that mentioned so it's no big deal if your teacher could not explain it clearly. I probably did not explain it clearly too.