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The routes on my MS Windows machines suddenly change when a SmartNode is booted on the same subnet. Why?

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The routes on my MS Windows machines suddenly change when a SmartNode is booted on the same subnet. Why?

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The SmartNode is a router as per RFC1812/RFC1256 and thus sends “ICMP Router Discovery” messages to the subnet to which it is attached. Some MS Windows versions react to such messages and automatically adjust their routing tables.