Routing multicast traffic in Vista multi-homed setup

If you run any NT-based system with multiple networks and want to receive multicast traffic on an interface other than the default one, you might want to perform a few commands in the command line.

The problem with Windows NT, unlike Unix-like OSs, is that it can't route multicast traffic like other.

So if you have something like

Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link      10.100.17.17    266
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        10.0.17.1       10.0.17.17    276

in your routing table and you want to get multicast from 10.0.17.1 instead of 10.100.17.1, you should run

route -p add 224.0.0.0 mask 240.0.0.0 10.0.17.1 if 8 metric 1

where "if" should be the interface number corresponding to 10.0.17.17 and "metric" should be anything less than metric of the route on 10.100.17.17 interface (the non preferred one).

P.S. This technique allowed me to use the IPTV with 99 sat channels that my other ISP provides instead of 18 I have with my primary and I'm pretty happy with that :)

Woohooo!!

I've got the SZ5MRN/B =) Sweetness )))

Now installing my slimmed down version of Vista instead of the bulky get-Norton-software-with-a-discount :)

Christmas wishlist

Ah, these times - I love it :) Christmas time's the time you can spend the money you have been saving up the whole year and don't be sorry for doing so :)

The wishlist for the closest possible future is:

-Sony VAIO SZ6 series laptop
-Canon EF 24-104mm F/4L lense
-Additional battery for the Canon 400D
-Sigma EF 500 DG SUPER flash

I could come up with something else, but these are the main things I'm focusing on :)

Vista network perofrmace: TCP window scaling

MyDigitalLife blog has posted a neat trick on tuning Vista. Think it might help.

AMDs Phenom screwed up

I used to be a big fan of AMD in the times of Athlon 64 and the early versions of A64 X2. Afterwards I moved to the Intel Core 2 Duo platform and I'm pretty happy with the performance I have now.

AMD announced the new quad-core Phenom CPUs and unfortunately they have just screwed up badly again. Tomshardware posted an article with various benchmarks of the CPUs and it shows the top 9700 version of Phenom being 9.8% slower than Intels lowest quad-core, the Q6600.

I hoped AMD would do better.

Sending contacts with Symbian 9.1

I know for sure that today hell was cold - I had no problems transferring around 300 contacts from my Nokia E65 to the E-ten Glofiish X500+ in a few simple steps: 1) Mark all 2) Send via bluetooth. At last I had no problems at least with this simple thing.

Gigabit LAN connection

I am now connected with a gigabit connection to my ISP's LAN, that has around 1 thousand users in our area. 271mbit/s is the average I get (usually it is from 250 to 310). The signal goes 50m over copper Ethernet cat5e cable to a D-Link switch and then hops to a 24port gigabit switch over some more 100 metres of Cat5e cabling and then goes over a fiber connection to a 8port gigabit switch before arriving at the Debian-based server.

Almost 6 and almost 45

I'm talking about number that are unusual for a PC otherwise used as a workstation, gaming machine and development environment.

That is 44 days 20 hours of uptime and almost 6 terabytes of uploaded traffic. Vista x64 is a lot more stable than Windows XP and a LOT more stable than XP Pro x64. That is what I can say from my experience using it. But reboot are still a very needed thing. Kaspersky Internet Security, Windows Update and a couple of programs were begging me 20 days in a row to reboot. I just didn't feel like it.

Btw, I have reached another psychological range - 1 TB on my FTP.

Apache freezing under Windows Vista

I'm quite happy with Vista Business I have had for some months now, but one thing has bugged me all the time. That was my Apache 2.2 server freezing once every 1-2-3 days. I had 2.0.54 before and the same thing happened to it as well.

After googling for a while I came up with an article on MyDigitalLife that solved my problem instantaneously. The

Win32DisableAcceptEx

directive helped me get over Apache hangups.