Help with RouteSentry please!

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Hi guys,

When I install RouteSentry, whenever I try and open it I just get a Windows error saying "This application has encountered an error and needs to close."

I've tried downloading different versions, from different sources, always the same error.

Anyone have any ideas? I really want to get this working :(

Are their any other applications that do what RouteSentry does?

Where to from here?

Any help would be enormously appreciated.

Thanks Guys.
 
Nope, you shouldn't get any errors with XP. I would remove and reinstall.
 
:( I don't know what the problem is. Have tried uninstalling and re-installing with multiple different versions, same error everytime :(

Anyone have ANY ideas? :(

Is there any other way to do the same thing?
 
Im not sure about the error but you need to get raspppoe first before you can use routsentry.

http://www.raspppoe.com/ (heres the link)

you need to install the protocol that comes with that in your network connection.

Once it is installed and you have restarted (you need to restart otherwise it won't work), open RUN and type in 'raspppoe'. When the box comes up you need to create you ppoe connections through there.

This worked for me, good luck.

(Oh yes one more thing I nearly forgot, you need to go to your network properties for your lan connection and change the settings for "PPP over Ethernet protocol. Under the advanced tab, set number of lines to 2. Should be all you need.)
 
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Subversion said:
When I install RouteSentry, whenever I try and open it I just get a Windows error saying "This application has encountered an error and needs to close."
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Have you got .NET framework installed? Install version 3, if that doesnt work try installing version 2 also. You can get it from microsoft.com / google
 
Subversion, we need to knwo what error was encountered.
Usually there is an error message with a dll name.

It gives us a hint in which direction to look to solve the problem, as there are many parts to RouteSentry.

I suspect that you have not configured RASPPPOE to allow it to use more than 1 dial-up connection at a time though.

To do that:
1 - Right click on My Network Places. Choose Properties. Or open the Network Connections screen in some other way.
2 - Right click on your Network Adapter. Choose Properties.
3 - In that list called "This connection uses the following items:", find PPP over Ethernet Protocol. (This is RASPPPOE).
4 - Click on Properties.
5 - Click on the ADVANCED tab.
6 - Change Number of lines (WAN endpoints) to 2.
7 - Ok, Ok, Ok, Ok ... back to the main screen.
8 - Reboot.

If step 6 [Number of lines (WAN endpoints)] was already higher than 1, then that is not the problem.
Step 3 will be missing if RASPPPOE is not installed.
 
Hi guys,

thank you so much for all your responses, I really appreciate it.

I did have RASPPOE installed and have configured it for both my accounts.

I changed the number of WAN endpoints (it is now 2).

Application still crashes on start, this is what the error report says:

AppName: routesentry.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: kernel32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.5781 Offset: 00012afb

Am busy downloading .NET framework 3 right now, will let you know how that goes!
 
Yea, okay, that error does not point in any direction.

I don't have .NET3 installed, only version 2, mine works fine.
To see if you have .Net 2 installed, open windows explorer and look for:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727

All the versions of Dot Net that you have installed will be listed under the following folder:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework

Something else I thought of:
Do you perhaps have more than one network card in your machine, like ... a wired one and a wireless one?

i.e. Did you perhaps create the RASPPPOE connections using the wrong network adapter?

When you created the Dial-Up connection using RASPPPOE.
i.e.
- Start -> Run -> RASPPPOE
Look on the top of that window, there's a drop down that tells RESPPPOE which network card to create the connection on. You must choose the network card that is connected to the ADSL router.

RASPPPOE then creates a dial-up connection that you have to go rename to e.g. TelkomLocalOnly or something before you create the next one from the same RASPPPOE window.
 
Thanks again for the continued tech support!

ok, .NET framework 2 and 3 installed, no luck.

davemc: I only have 1 network adapter, I'm pretty sure I set up the connections properly, as I use them now to dial in to the internet.

I really don't know what to do!

AHHHHHHHHHH!
 
Dammit, what on earth?

1. Lets eliminate dial-up as a problem completely:
Create 2 dial-up connections as you would for route-sentry, and connect them both at the same time. Make dead sure that they are RASPPPOE connections and not normal windows dial-up connections by re-creating them both from the RASPPPOE interface as I listed above. Remember that you have to rename the newly created RASPPPOE connection, then go back to RASPPPOE and make the next one and go and rename that one to something more useful.

:: Any errors? Yes = Stop and report back.

2. Eliminate routing as part of the problem:
Warning, may mess up your internet connection, but nothing that a simple reboot will not fix.
- Connect both RASPPPOE dial-up connections.
- Open a command prompt START -> RUN -> CMD
- Enter:
route add 74.125.127.100 mask 255.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 metric 2 if 2
:: Any errors? Yes = Stop and report back.

3. Re-download route-sentry. Perhaps the download is corrupt. You did download the installer right?

4. Turn off any anti-virus software, try the executable again, remember to turn the AV back on.
 
Hey Dave,

Thanks so much for your continued support on this.

Step 1 went fine - both connections connected simultaneously without any problems.

Ran into a problem at step 2, got the following error:

The route addition failed: The specified mask parameter is invalid. <Destination & Mask> != Destination.

Tried entering the command 3 times to make sure I entered it right, copied what you said verbatim.

Does this error tell you anything?
 
Yea, it tells me that I don't know enough about your network to give you a route command that will work. Just ignore it and move on to step 3.
I apologise.
 
Oh ok :)

Well I've tried multiple installers, multiple versions, from different sources.

All give the same error :(

This is so confusing.
 
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