Windows 10: My default gateway is 0.0.0.0 & I can't forward ports

So my default gateway is basically 0.0.0.0 which doesn't allow me to forward ports.
I'm using windows 10.
Is ther anything I can change?? *Mad

:)

 

Default gateway set to 0.0.0.0.

I was recently trying to troubleshoot an IP network issue. I had given the Ethernet port on my Laptop (Win 10 Pro) the IP address of the kit that had problems communicating. The IP address was set to aaa.bbb.ccc.241, the subnet mask 255.255.255.248, and
the default gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.244. O set the DNS to OpenDNS's IP addresses. I could not PING any device out of the subnet I was on. I checked the settings in Control Panel and my typing was correct.

However, doing "ipconfig /all" indicated that there were two default gateways aaa.bbb.ccc.244 and 0.0.0.0. This looked strange, but I checked on another PC (Win 7 Pro) I had with me, and it also showed two default gateways, so I thought it must be right.
After more unsuccessful troubleshooting I thought again about the two default gateways. "route print" showed quite a few entries, but two of them were:

Destination 0.0.0.0 Netmask 0.0.0.0 Gateway 0.0.0.0 and Destination 0.0.0.0 Netmask 0.0.0.0 Gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.244 Checking through control panel only indicated one default gateway aaa.bbb.ccc.244. I did a "route -f" and the 0.0.0.0 gateway entry disappeared,
as did the network problems I was trying to troubleshoot. Can anyone suggest what might have caused the rogue default gateway entry? Was it something I did? I see that many moons ago a similar issue was believed to have been caused by Apple’s Bonjour software
or Adobe CS3; niether of which I have ever installed (to my knowledge anyway).

 

Default gateway set to 0.0.0.0.

Unfortunately, I did not record the full output from ipconfig /all while I still had the problem. However, I did record that part of the output that referred to the physical Ethernet port. I have redacted the first part of the specific IP addresses for security.

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 50-9A-4C-47-27-39

DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::bc96:7f42:39db:ca1b%10(Preferred)

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : XXX.XXX.XXX.244(Preferred)

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.248

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0

XXX.XXX.XXX.241

DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 72391244

DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-21-04-0C-ED-50-9A-4C-47-27-39

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 208.67.220.220

NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

After doing a route -f the output was the same, except the 0.0.0.0 under the Default Gateway option was not there.

 

Open Command Prompt as Admin
route delete 0.0.0.0
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

Note: If you have Bonjour installed, then it's possible that's what caused the gateway to be 0.0.0.0 and it could do it again. You might want to set it to Manual Start in Services and Disable it in Startup (if it's there)

 

Are you trying to forward ports on your router or on your pc?