Help with Sage on a multihomed system

[xred]

I am trying to run SageTV on a machine with multiple physical network connections and not having much luck. My current working setup looks like this;

NIC1 (Intel Physical Adapter)
IP: 172.16.1.100
Gateway: 172.16.1.1

NIC2: (Hamachi Virtual Adapter)
IP:5.x.x.x

The machine is currently connected to the LAN and the internet via the one physical adapter. For a variety of reasons I am trying to get this box to connect to the LAN (extenders, clients etc) via one NIC and the Internet (Placeshifter, Online content) via another. Here's the setup I am trying to get working:

NIC1 (Intel Physical Adapter)
IP: 172.16.1.100
Gateway: None (LAN Only)

NIC2: (Dell 1450 USB Wireless Adapter)
IP: 192.168.1.10
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

NIC3: (Hamachi Virtual Adapter)
IP:5.x.x.x

When I set this up the extenders refuse to connect to the server. The local copy of Sage on the server runs fine but the extenders won't connect even if I manually set the server IP in their config. I've also tried binding the server to the 172.x.x.x IP in sage.properties, but its still no go. Anyone know a way to make this work?

TIA.

[zoundz]

You didn't say what OS, but assuming XP or better, one solution is to bridge the 2 NICs. If you need 2 separate subnets, this won't work, but if you just need to use 2 NICs because one is hardwired and the other is wireless, you can set up bridging. They will have the same IP address and the topology will look as if they are the same node.

[mickp]

A (very) quick search of the forums didn't show up a way to control the bindings for the sage services. You might try changing the binding order of the nics to favor the internal one but failing that, I'd lodge a support ticket to see if there's a sage.properties configuration setting to tell Sage which ip's to bind to.

Mick.

[xred]

Thanks for the replies.

I can't bridge as I need two separate networks. The real issue is that I use this box (Vista 32bit BTW) as a "home server". In addition to running SageTV it runs several other apps with Web UI's (sabNZBd+, utorrent etc.) and it does a lot of downloading from the internet.

I have two internet connections at home (one cable one DSL) and by adding the second NIC I am able to give the box a separate internet connection from the rest of the machines on my home LAN. All the internet traffic goes through the secondary wireless NIC while the wired NIC is used exclusively for LAN / Local traffic (ie extenders and serving network shares).

The problem is that Sage apparently doesn't know how to connect under this environment.... I'll forward my original post to support and see what they say

[DigitalMan]

I have 3 networks on mine.

1) a private net with no gateway, I have only tuners on this network

2) a private net with no gateway, I use for backup, file transfers, editing, etc.

3) net with gateway to the internet, extenders, sage clients, etc.

perhaps broadcasts are only going out a segment with a gateway. (edit: to clarify, sage broadcasts only go to a subnet they're on, but perhaps they aren't broadcasting the initial handshake on all nics)

ps. the reason I set mine up this way was because I only have a 10mbit internet connection and all these segments are gigabit, so, there's plenty of bandwidth for a lot of clients.