Unidentified Network - Default Gateway address disappears on powerdown

Sillytowser said:

Thanks for the response but I have already tried that.
When you say that there does not seem to be a resolution yet, I take it that this is a problem known to Microsoft and that a solution is being worked on??

Sillytowser

I see many similar complaints when I do a search, and I've seen this problem before a few other times although the solutions seem to be different in each case.

You might try the registry adjustment per the link below by Ron Welker.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...c-c7fd37bc6ce1

The fix "in this case" is to make a registry adjustment as described below.
1. Open the registry with regedit.exe

2. Go to the path: HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Tcpip/Parameters/Interfaces/

3. Here you'll need to select the CLSID of your network adapter where you change the settings. You'll probably recognize it by looking at the value IP Address that will have the IP of this adapter.

4. Open the value "Default Gateway" by double clicking it. You will see a list of all the gateways that disappeared! (maybe in your case it will be only one, in my case there were due to lots of testing several addresses) Very likely, the first line will be empty. I'm not sure, how this little flaw can make such a big problem. However, if you manually remove this first empty line, click OK and reboot your system everything should be working fine again.
Things worked fine until the last system update which added this old problem this old problem back into the system.

This TechNet thread talks about the problem which was reported as a bug officially. It shows some solutions that may help.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...istanetworking

This is reported as solved by the Op > Unidentified Network -... 22 Jan 2014 03:49 AMSillytowser Thanks for pointing me at the solution