Feature request, default gateway

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u666sa

Feature request, default gateway

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Hello. Picture the following scenario:


PC --> WIFI_ROUTER --> LTE_MODEM

Torrents are blocked on this LTE, which is nowadays becoming more common. However, there is access to another network over WIFI, which supports torrents, but can not be used for default internet traffic.

WIFI_ROUTER --> LTE_MODEM
^
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--> OVER_WIRE_TO_ANOTHER_WIFI_ROUTER ---> TO ANOTHER NETWORK

So we have two gateways on this network, 172.16.0.1 which is the default gateway which has torrents blocked, and 172.16.0.254 which does not have torrents blocked.


The only way to use suck setup is to install SOCKS5 proxy on the 2nd router, which can be problematic and combersome, especially if the device has small amount of flash memory, which most of them do.

I want qBitTorrent client to have a new feature of custom IP, where we can configure default gateway, DNS server, etc..... All this of course assumes the new gateway is on the same network, like in our scenario. So that when qBitTorrent client starts, it does not use gateway from windows internet connection setting, instead it uses a custom gateway configured in program and custom DNS servers.
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Re: Feature request, default gateway

Post by Peter »

You can set up "metric" for your network interfaces, that's what you need basically.
Or bind to interface (that's pretty much the gateway thing.)

You can't modify network settings per program, it's an adapter, it can only have one set of IP, gateway, netmask, etc.
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