force usage of network interface

Marcel W. Wysocki · Post by **Marcel W. Wysocki** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:24 am

Good morning.

Is there any way to force wine to use a specific network interface?
I have the following setup:

eth0 internet interface
tun0 openvpn

some programs use broadcasting (Starcraft). I don't know how it determines which device to use. It probably takes the first it does see. (Or is it wine doing that ?)
the problem is that starcraft just send the packages out via eth0.

for windows there is a tool called ForceBindIP http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ which does exactly what i need.
unfortunally it doesnt work in wine
i know it could be solved by using a bridged vpn instead of a tunnel, but that is no option for me.

perhaps anyone has come across the same problem and knows a fix.
or maybe there is some firewall magic i could do to just manipulate the packages' route.

thanks in advance

--
Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:57 am

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:

for windows there is a tool called ForceBindIP http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ which does exactly what i need.
unfortunally it doesnt work in wine

What happens when you try to ues ForceBindIP?
There's a chance Wine could support that app,
if we can find out what the bugs are and fix them.
- Dan

Edward Savage · Post by **Edward Savage** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:01 am

In general I'd like to see this functionality integrated in to wine.

Also I believe there is a native app that allows you to define which
interfaces an application has access to, though I'm not sure of its
name.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
for windows there is a tool called ForceBindIP http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ which does exactly what i need.
unfortunally it doesnt work in wine
What happens when you try to ues ForceBindIP?
There's a chance Wine could support that app,
if we can find out what the bugs are and fix them.
- Dan

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:17 am

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]> wrote:
for windows there is a tool called ForceBindIP http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ which does exactly what i need.
unfortunally it doesnt work in wine
What happens when you try to ues ForceBindIP?
There's a chance Wine could support that app,
if we can find out what the bugs are and fix them.

Marcel sent me enough info, so I filed a bug,
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12006
- Dan

Marcel W. Wysocki · Post by **Marcel W. Wysocki** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:38 pm

Is there any way to force wine to use a specific network interface?
I have the following setup:

eth0 internet interface
tun0 openvpn

some programs use broadcasting (Starcraft). I don't know how it determines which device to use. It probably takes the first it does see. (Or is it wine doing that ?)
the problem is that starcraft just send the packages out via eth0.

for windows there is a tool called ForceBindIP http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/ which does exactly what i need.
unfortunally it doesnt work in wine
i know it could be solved by using a bridged vpn instead of a tunnel, but that is no option for me.

ok, fixed the issue, sometimes its just too easy

route add -host 255.255.255.255 tun0
did the trick
--
Marcel W. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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