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  • When: 7 Feb 2012 12:47 AM
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  • When: 17 Sep 2013 9:17 AM
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Default Gateway Missing after a Reboot

Default Gateway Missing after a Reboot

Applies to:  Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

I’ve had this issue on a couple of Windows Server 2008 virtual machines in a VMWare environment (ESXi 4.1).

I am not sure if it is related to VMWare. However, I could find a fix.

 You enter a default gateway and the gateway disappears after a reboot – it simply disappears !!!


This is how I fixed:

 

START è RUN èREGEDIT

 Navigate to the following key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces”, select the interface that is missing the default gateway. You can identify which interface by the IP Address entry. Create a new STRING value in the selected interface key.

 Type: STRING (REG_MULTI_SZ)

Name: DefaultGateway

Value: enter the IP Address of the gateway; in this case it was 170.225.74.97


Post editing registry, I Rebooted the Server; I did not have any more issues with the gateway disappearing. I Opened up the properties of the network connection and I could see the gateway listed. 

Ref: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/04/22/you-may-lose-the-default-gateway-on-sbs-2008-every-time-you-reboot.aspx 
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  • Posted by
    on 7 Feb 2012 1:29 AM

    Santosh Bhandarkar edited Revision 1. Comment: Title update  

  • Posted by
    on 25 Mar 2012 1:11 AM

    Thanks !

  • Posted by
    on 2 Sep 2012 1:47 AM

    Santosh Bhandarkar edited Revision 2. Comment: Applies to section added

  • Posted by
    on 5 Sep 2012 12:59 PM

    Santosh Bhandarkar edited Revision 4. Comment: Tags Update

  • Posted by
    on 3 Feb 2013 2:44 AM

    on Xenapp server, did the same , validated ip settings, recreatelhc and it worked.

    Thanks,

  • Posted by
    on 3 Feb 2013 10:10 AM

    Good to hear that issue has been resolved :-)

  • Posted by
    on 17 Sep 2013 9:27 AM

    We should remove many of the tags in this article. Some are being added inadvertently to other articles due to the autocomplete feature. I would suggest we only need "en-US", "Windows Server 2008 R2", "Default Gateway", and "Santosh Bhandarkar". I removed the tag "Windows Server 2008 R2 Default Gateway Issue" because the tag appeared already on 7 other articles that did not even have either of the terms "default" or "gateway" anywhere in the article.

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