How can you assist the workstation computer now?

By default, the router sends the computer a response with the address of the router which knows the route to the destination network (this response is known as an ICMP redirect). The workstation computer then accepts this address and sends the data packet straight to the other router.

Certain computers, however, do not know how to handle ICMP redirects. To ensure that the data packets reach their destination anyway, use local routing. In this way you instruct the router itself in your device to send the data packet to other routers. In addition, in this case no more ICMP redirects will be sent. The setting is made under:

LANconfig: IP router / General / Forward packets within the local network

WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / IP-router / Loc.-routing

Local routing can be very helpful in isolated cases, however, it should also only be used in isolated cases. For local routing leads to a doubling of all data packets to the desired target network. The data is first sent to the default router and is then sent on from here to the router which is actually responsible in the local network.