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Win NT4 - Dead Gateway Detection

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by great_pyr

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If two default gateways are assigned, and the first one goes down, I can't seem to get the client to use the second one. If I manually promote the second gateway to the number one spot, then it works fine. NT is supposed to deted that the first one is "dead", right? I need some info here. THANKS!

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by kth11

If I can remember correctly, Windows nt servers have the master browser set up to inform the netowrk of computers and services going down, But this process can take up to a couple hours for the info to be sent out to the different computers that would be using the different gateway, the first could be down but the other computers would not know this and would still assume that the gateway was up and working fine untill the master browser informes of the change.

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