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So here's the setup.
At my company we use a large VPN with several different subnets, and apparently the wireless routers have access to some of the hosts on the VPN but not all, while the ethernet ports (connected to a switching station somewhere in the building) are connected to a different set of hosts.
I was wondering if there was a way to tell any application to use a particular NIC instead of the default chosen by the OS, and possibly to setup rules for it, for instance, a way to tell Chrome to use the wireless adapter and Firefox to use the ethernet adapter.
I know that applications can be programmed to do this and I know that any machine with multiple NICs is physically capable of such a thing, I just don't know how to control it.
Here's an ipconfig /all showing both NICs and the separate subnets they are connected to:
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : yourmothersahost
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : example.com
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : example.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-EC-90-96-28
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::80a3:cb35:48c0:ae43%12(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.29.69(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:36:16 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, November 06, 2011 3:24:29 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.29.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.16.45
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 318775020
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-14-51-42-35-00-1E-EC-90-96-28
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.10.16.42
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.10.40.45
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : example.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-21-00-40-D5-70
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a0b2:9b70:3b19:47d0%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.55.27(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:36:29 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, November 03, 2011 6:47:35 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.52.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.254.254
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 184557824
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-14-51-42-35-00-1E-EC-90-96-28
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.16.42
10.10.16.45
Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.10.16.42
Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.10.40.45
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.example.com:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : example.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes