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How to flush route table in windows?

I am trying to write a program that changes the default gateway of network time by time. But it seems that there are caches on the route table in every process so that I cannot control the network behavior accurately. Can I just flush route table to that process?

For example if I executed an Iexplore.exe first, then changed the default gateway to a Korean vpn, IE still went to amercia default gateway. But if I change the default gateway first and then execute Iexplore.exe, it went to Korea.

So how can I flush the route table cache? Thanks.

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jay Avatar asked Mar 16 '12 14:03

jay


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2 Answers

From command prompt as admin run:

netsh interface ip delete destinationcache 

Works on Win7.

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exceed Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 18:09

exceed


route -f causes damage. So we need to either disconnect the correct parts of the routing table or find out how to rebuild it.

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DMart Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 18:09

DMart