Re-establish route to localhost on Windows Vista

Question

route -f

How do you re-establish a route to localhost after this? I can re-establish connections to the Internet via wireless using

route add {wirelessgateway} {wirelessip} if {wirelessif}
route add 0.0.0.0 {wirelessgateway}

but a lot of things fail because there is no route to 127.0.0.1. Also, Internet access via the browser is very slow, while Internet access via programs like telnet does not work.

ping 127.0.0.1

does not work.

Answer 1

Why did you run route -f? The quickest way to restore things is to restart the PC - this will restore all dynamic routing info.