Topic: Ethernet Adapter Question with WinXP

I have win xp and two Ethernet adapters.

One is wireless and one is wired. The wired network has a number of ports blocked but the wireless adapter has no ports blocked.

Is there any way I can configure on an application level which applications should use which adapter? I have been looking for information but could not even find the right words to search for.

Dan
Code Town | Zombie Head

how are you blocking the ports on the wired card?

Later,

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The wired card has the ports blocked via a remote hardware firewall.

The wired card is on the office network.
The wireless connection is open for public access.

Dan
Code Town | Zombie Head

We need to get this straight:

What do you want to configure? Which interface outgoing requests from application xyz use? Then I don't thing it's possible on a per-app basis, but you can adjust some parts with routes, or simply place a general route on the wired card, meaning no requests go out over the w wireless card (incoming requests would still be answered by the card)
Or do you want to configure on which interface server software on your amchine listens at? Then yes, that's a per application setting, but it's also specifc for each application and we need to know which apps we're talking about. (No luck with linux though, it's a weak end host).

So long,

->Tyberius Prime

I have an application on my machine that wants to connect to a remote host on port 5555.

The wired network has port 5555 blocked.
The wireless card doe not have port 5555 blocked.

When the application tries to make a remote connection using port 5555 a 'Can Not Connect' exception is thrown.

I believe this is because outgoing requests are defaulted through the wired connection.

If I disable the wired connection and then attempt to use the application to connect to the remote host the connection is successful.

If I then turn the LAN connection back on the connection to the remote host is lost.

What I am assuming is that all outgoing requests are always routed through the wired connection, and even upon a failure the wireless connection is not used.

What I would like to be able to configure is:

if wireless and wired are both active
  requests for port 5555 uses wireless
  others use wired

Dan
Code Town | Zombie Head

Provided the remote host has a fixed ip, a route is the way to go. (route help, route add, on the command lilne).

If the server you're contacting and your wireless connection have fixed IP addresses (and, I think, even if your wireless doesn't) then you can use the windows command-line 'route' command to add a rule saying all traffic for <server IP> goes out <wireless interface>

edit: and this is what I get for not refreshing the page before I post


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(Edited by Skaarjj on 02-21-2007 13:33)

Awesome, after playing around with the routes for about an hour I was able to figure out how to make it do what I needed to do.

This makes working on my computer much easier, thank you all for the help.

Dan
Code Town | Zombie Head