Multiple NIC's - Real IP Not Hidden
Hi All,
I'm having a particularly frustrating issue that I can't seem to find a resolution to. I'm hoping someone might be able to help who may have had the same issue. Basically, I have an Alienware 17 R3 laptop which allows for the use of both the ethernet port and the wireless adapter simultaneously connected to the gateway/router.
The ethernet adapter and wireless adapter are both "Killer" branded cards, the ethernet being a Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and the wireless being a Killer 1535 n/a/ac Adapter. The teaming of the two adapters isn't achieved by any type of windows bridging through the network settings for the adapters, but via the "Killer Control Center" software that comes with the hardware. There's options called "Killer Doubleshot Pro" and "Advanced Stream Detect" of which allow for the software to automagically detect which interface to send traffic through. You can change this manually or just let it do it's thing and you can see which interface any particular application is using at any one time through the software interface.
Now to the actual problem. I had no issues when I was just using one interface, either the ethernet alone, or the wireless alone, with the PIA software. Once connected it would hide my IP with no issues. Now however when using both adapters in the current configuration the PIA software connects fine and the TAP adapter displays the config as expected in the Details tab. Even when you traceroute to an address, the route follows through the TAP adapter (PIA's IP) as it should do, and when you run nslookup it's using the PIA DNS servers for lookups, but for some reason when you check your IP online at either the PIA site, or other sites to confirm your "real" IP it is not hidden, and shows my real IP not the PIA hidden IP.
For the life of me I can't work out what's going on and why my real IP is not being hidden. I've set the IP metric values for IPv4 as 10 for the TAP adapter, 20 for the ethernet adapter, and 30 for the wireless adapter which made no difference, and as I said previously the routing seems to be set up the way it's supposed to as in the outbound traffic is going out via the PIA TAP adapter.
Can anyone who uses a dual NIC configuration like the one I've specified advise me as to what I'm missing here, and how I might be able to rectify this so that my real IP is hidden once connected via the PIA Windows software?
I'm running Windows 10, with just the PIA software, latest version v77.
Thanks in advance,
razorwire.
I'm having a particularly frustrating issue that I can't seem to find a resolution to. I'm hoping someone might be able to help who may have had the same issue. Basically, I have an Alienware 17 R3 laptop which allows for the use of both the ethernet port and the wireless adapter simultaneously connected to the gateway/router.
The ethernet adapter and wireless adapter are both "Killer" branded cards, the ethernet being a Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller and the wireless being a Killer 1535 n/a/ac Adapter. The teaming of the two adapters isn't achieved by any type of windows bridging through the network settings for the adapters, but via the "Killer Control Center" software that comes with the hardware. There's options called "Killer Doubleshot Pro" and "Advanced Stream Detect" of which allow for the software to automagically detect which interface to send traffic through. You can change this manually or just let it do it's thing and you can see which interface any particular application is using at any one time through the software interface.
Now to the actual problem. I had no issues when I was just using one interface, either the ethernet alone, or the wireless alone, with the PIA software. Once connected it would hide my IP with no issues. Now however when using both adapters in the current configuration the PIA software connects fine and the TAP adapter displays the config as expected in the Details tab. Even when you traceroute to an address, the route follows through the TAP adapter (PIA's IP) as it should do, and when you run nslookup it's using the PIA DNS servers for lookups, but for some reason when you check your IP online at either the PIA site, or other sites to confirm your "real" IP it is not hidden, and shows my real IP not the PIA hidden IP.
For the life of me I can't work out what's going on and why my real IP is not being hidden. I've set the IP metric values for IPv4 as 10 for the TAP adapter, 20 for the ethernet adapter, and 30 for the wireless adapter which made no difference, and as I said previously the routing seems to be set up the way it's supposed to as in the outbound traffic is going out via the PIA TAP adapter.
Can anyone who uses a dual NIC configuration like the one I've specified advise me as to what I'm missing here, and how I might be able to rectify this so that my real IP is hidden once connected via the PIA Windows software?
I'm running Windows 10, with just the PIA software, latest version v77.
Thanks in advance,
razorwire.
Comments
Before we go into really complicated stuff, have you made sure to clear your browser cache or use a private browsing window just to be sure the page that tells you your IP haven't been cached by the browser? It can happen when you expect it the least.
Otherwise, I honestly don't know. If anything was to go wrong with having two adapters active at the same time, I'd expect the VPN to get stuck unable to sent data to the servers but with your traffic still routed into the TAP.
Can you share us the output of these three commands while the VPN is connected?
The last one in particular should tell us the exact final route your traffic is taking, if it still goes through your ISP despite showing going through PIA's servers then I really don't know what to think about this...