wine users - Oct 2009 - Bind app to network interface

Greetings.

I have an old game (Wine98-era) that I want to play with a friend of Hamachi (a
VPN). The game only sees the main network interface (eth0) and binds to that. (I
can verify that in Wireshark). Attempts to get it to use the Hamachi interface
ham0 failed. I've tried changing the localhost line in /etc/hosts to my
hamachi ip to no avail. I also tried some Windows app that is supposed to
control which network interface other apps bind to, but to no avail.

Is there any way to get this to work?

haarp wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have an old game (Wine98-era) that I want to play with a friend of
Hamachi (a VPN). The game only sees the main network interface (eth0) and binds
to that. (I can verify that in Wireshark). Attempts to get it to use the Hamachi
interface ham0 failed. I've tried changing the localhost line in /etc/hosts
to my hamachi ip to no avail. I also tried some Windows app that is supposed to
control which network interface other apps bind to, but to no avail.
> 
> Is there any way to get this to work?

This is not the same error that you are running into, but I advise you to have a
look at this old topic of mine:

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=20324

Particularly, have a look at this (
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=25422#25422 ) answer, which was
impressively useful.

Such an app that controls the interface that other apps bind to should not work
under Wine. An equivalent GNU/Linux app might do it, but this is a complex
issue.

The idea with the previous topic is to have the app bind to all interfaces,
IIRC.

Hope that helped, even if not that much,

Jorl17

Finally! thank you!

This command has sufficed for me:


Code:
route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev ham0