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Port forward to wireless & UTP ports on same machine

We use a remote management tool that allows us to assign different ports to different machines and access them through the ASTARO by port forwarding and DNAT

We are having an assue trying to connect to the laptops. Sometimes they are on the LAN and other times thay are connected wirelessly and each NIC has different IPs

Since the program only allows 1 port per computer and not by IP address, I can DNAT both NICs with the same forwarding port# but they are prioritized in NAT and if the higher ranked NIC is not active, it blocks the other NIC from connecting

How can I access the active NIC without getting blocked by the higher inactive ranked NIC?

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0 BarryG over 14 years ago

Hi,

1. I would first try setting both NICs to get the same address by using DHCP reservations. I've done this with laptops and it has worked for me. However, it's possible some OS's may get upset if the user is already on wifi and plugs in the ethernet without disabling the wifi first.

alternatively,

2. try creating an availability group for each computer's NICs might work: https://support.astaro.com/support/index.php/Creating_and_Using_Availability_Groups

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0 BarryG over 14 years ago

Hi,

1. I would first try setting both NICs to get the same address by using DHCP reservations. I've done this with laptops and it has worked for me. However, it's possible some OS's may get upset if the user is already on wifi and plugs in the ethernet without disabling the wifi first.

alternatively,

2. try creating an availability group for each computer's NICs might work: https://support.astaro.com/support/index.php/Creating_and_Using_Availability_Groups

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