I have two NICs on my machine, one which connects to my network and has my internet connection. The other connects to a buddy next doors network with his internet connection. I don't want Windows magically deciding which internet connection to use, I want it to use mine. I've had some success by blanking out DNS servers for his connection, but then I also lose hostname resolution on his network and I realize this doesn't solve everything 100%. How can I force Windows to use only my connection while avoiding the use of a router?
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I think, for what you want to do, you can use the Proxy Switchy! extension for Chrome and create a different profile for your VPN and set the Network in the Proxy Switchy! settings as so:
This seems to be the easiest way to achieve what you want as selecting a profile will route through that specific connection.
All your other traffic will be routed through whatever the local connection is, and your Chrome traffic will be routed through the VPN.
You would want to set up a route for static IP with a netmask of 255.255.255.255 and a gateway of 12.11.10.9:
route add yourSpecificStaticIP mask 255.255.255.255 12.11.10.9
This will route traffic to yourSpecificStaticIP over the iPhone network interface. You will need to remove the route if at any point you do not want to use the iPhone, and you will need to recreate the route any time you reboot your machine, unless you use the persist (-p) option.
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If you only need to reach a few computers, all of which are connected to the same router on the 2nd network then you could also configure it to use a static IP address with no gateway. Without a gateway you will only be able to communicate with devices on the same subnet and connected to the same router (ie: broadcast mode).
You can technically also do this under DHCP by deleting the 0.0.0.0 route for the interface using the
ROUTE DELETEcommand line tool for editing routes, but you would need to do that every time your IP is renewed, so changing to a static ip address is much simpler. Just pick a static IP that is not in use and it should work just fine.