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Options - Route Change Settings
By default, any route change is recorded and noted by PingPlotter. In some cases, this may not be desired behavior. An example of this is if something in your regular trace route oscillates between 2 (or more) routers based on load. If you're seeing route oscillation (where a specific hop regularly changes between 2 or 3 different IP addresses, but the rest of the route doesn't change), then you can add a mask to this list to suppress route change notifications when this happens. 1. To do this, click on Add IP Mask, and then enter the first IP address. Once it's in the list, select it, and then click on or with selected line (Or with XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX). In the popup, enter the next IP address of the oscillating set. Repeat this if there's a third one (or more). 3. The * next to Packet in the navigation pane to the left indicates that you have not "applied" the changes you've made. 4. The Apply button will apply all the changes you've made to the areas marked with an asterisk (*) and not exit the Options area. OK applies those same settings, and then exits out of the Options area. Cancel negates all changes you've made. If you've been making a lot of changes and not "applying" them, this can be a pretty bad thing to do. Conversely, if you want to scrap all your changes and start over again, Cancel is the button for you. |
2. Normally, the route change window is hidden on the main screen. If this is the
case, then a "New route changes logged." notification will pop up whenever there is a route change which
you can then click on to show the route change window.
If you're getting a lot of route thrashing that
you don't want to know about, you can turn off this indicator by unchecking
the show route change indicator when list hidden
option. This is option is on by default.