Blocking IPs with route add

This is something I've been looking for, for a while now. There was
previous post about this but it was over a year old and I need mor
information

I run a game server and in XP I like to use route.exe to block player
who cheat. It's just easier for me to do than go through the rigmarol
of looking up the IP range and then going to the firewall and all tha
crap. I just go to CMD and do it with route add. Takes me 3 seconds an
the cheater is permanently banned (until I delete it). I get the playe
IP and then put it in like this

Code
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route add -p xxx.xxx.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.253 metric
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Where XXX is the network identifier of the cheater and 192.168.1.25
is a non-existing location on my network

This works *great *in XP, but for Vista, it doesn't and I've bee
trying to find out how to do the same for Vista

If I am understanding that old post correctly, I would need to put in
valid IP, like the host machine, rather than a non-existing location.
want to confirm that I am understanding it correctly

What I would then need to do is this

Code
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route add -p xxx.xxx.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 192.168.1.45 metric
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Where 192.168.1.45 would be the IP of the host machine? Is thi
correct

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aliceaod

Well, I tested this on a friend and it works! Yay! Thanks anyways folks!



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aliceaod