FG picks the wrong internal NIC with multiple NIC's installed

[bluedreamer]

Hi

Apologies if answered before but I couldn't find it

I have 3 NIC's on my windows box
WIFI: not configured
LAN: physical connection on 192.168.124.*
VirtualBox: 192.168.56.*

For some reason FG always picks the VirtualBox LAN as my NIC - anyway to force it to pick the one I want?

TIA

Adrian

[Andraax]

What do you have your routing setup as? I'm pretty sure that FG just allows the IP stack to select the NIC based on your routing (probably selects the default route unless you have a custom one).

[bluedreamer]

Nothing looking amiss or unusual to me



C:\Users\Adrian>route print
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Interface List
13...94 39 e5 6e e6 3e ......DW1501 Wireless-N WLAN Half-Mini Card
11...18 03 73 d9 1b 58 ......Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
24...08 00 27 00 34 3a ......VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
1...........................Software Loopback Interface 1
22...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
12...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
23...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #3
20...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #4
================================================== =========================

IPv4 Route Table
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.124.1 192.168.124.92 20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
192.168.56.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.56.1 276
192.168.56.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 276
192.168.56.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 276
192.168.124.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 192.168.124.92 276
192.168.124.92 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.124.92 276
192.168.124.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.124.92 276
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.56.1 276
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 192.168.124.92 276
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.56.1 276
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 192.168.124.92 276
================================================== =========================
Persistent Routes:
None

IPv6 Route Table
================================================== =========================
Active Routes:
If Metric Network Destination Gateway
1 306 ::1/128 On-link
24 276 fe80::/64 On-link
24 276 fe80::48fb:5dcd:9e9f:94b0/128
On-link
1 306 ff00::/8 On-link
24 276 ff00::/8 On-link
================================================== =========================
Persistent Routes:
None

[Trenloe]

Check your NIC binding order: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-network-protocol-bindings-order#1TC=windows-7

[bluedreamer]

Looks ok to me - "Local Area Connection" is before my VirtualBox NIC

On reading your reply sounded like the perfect solution - but wasn't :-(

9135

[damned]

FG picks "a" network - it doesnt know which one is the right one.
Can you disable the VBox Nic while you are playing FG?


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[bluedreamer]

DOH - should have thought of that myself - but I didn't :-)

This works for well enough for me to be a solution for the moment. I hope the FG guys add the ability to control the NIC at some point.

Thanks damned.

[damned]

It is not likely to be even looked at in FG3 but with Unity's improved Networking engine it might feature in FG4...
As soon as you launch FG you should be able to re-enable the vbox adapter.



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[bluedreamer]

As long as it is on the TODO list is good enough for me - I work in software dev - I know how long it takes to fix minor issues.

And as for the enable - don't need it - if the vbox net is up it means I am working - and FG gaming and work are two none intersecting sets :-) - nothing interferes with my game time.

[Trenloe]

FG will only use the internal address it shows if you are relying on UPnP for the port forwarding. If you have manually set up your port forwarding to look at your main NIC card then it doesn't really matter what FG is showing. FG accepts connections on all of your enabled network cards.