Auto decide which @IPAddress1-4 to take

[LWC]

I have multiple network adapters but only one is actually connected.
I thus use @IPAddress1 in my scripts whereas @IPAddress2-4 return 0.0.0.0

But recently I've installed the VirtualBox emulator and it took over @IPAddress1 which means my real connection is now @IPAddress2.
Why is that? Is there a way to make AutoIt skip to @IPAddress2 if @IPAddress1 is used by an emulator?

In the attached screenshot it's temporarily disabled so I can revive my scripts which all already use @IPAddress1.

 

Update: here's the solution.

Edited May 11, 2019 by LWC
Linked to solution

[supraaxdd]

Try and look around in this post, you may find something useful. I'm not the type of person to deal with these, so I will just supply you with the link and maybe the guide will help you change or possibly explain how it works...

Tell me if you find anything.

 

Regards,

Supra

[argumentum]

pull data from ipconfig, the one that match the 3 first octets of the gateway is the one. 

[Subz]

I normally use TCPNameToIP(@ComputerName) 

[TheDcoder]

If you want the external IP address which is visible to other computers/servers, you can use the _GetIP function:

_GetIP

 

[LWC]

TCPNameToIP(@ComputerName)  actually matches @IPAddress1 (the emulated one), not @IPAddress2 (the actual internal one), so it doesn't change anything.

_GetIP() is not relevant as I need the right internal address, not an external one.

So I've ended up successfully using the following code, which finds the first adapter which has a gateway, as it seems like emulated ones don't have gateways.

But I do wish @IPAddress1-4 would have just given priority to non emulated addresses over emulated ones.

$internal_not_emulated_ip_address=_GetGateway()[0]

Func _GetGateway()
    ; Based on:
    ; Rajesh V R
    ; v 1.0 01 June 2009

       ; use the adapter name as seen in the network connections dialog...
    Const $wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 0x10
    Const $wbemFlagForwardOnly = 0x20
    Local $colNICs="", $NIC, $strQuery, $objWMIService

    $strQuery = "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration"
    $objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2")
    $colNICs = $objWMIService.ExecQuery($strQuery, "WQL", $wbemFlagReturnImmediately + $wbemFlagForwardOnly)

    Local $output[2]

    If IsObj($colNICs) Then
        For $NIC In $colNICs
            if isstring($NIC.DefaultIPGateway(0)) then
                $output[0] = $NIC.IPAddress(0)
                $output[1] = $NIC.DefaultIPGateway(0)
                ExitLoop
            endif
        Next
    Else
        SetError(-1, "No WMI Objects Found for class: Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration", "")
    EndIf
    Return $output
EndFunc

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by LWC
Rephrased

[supraaxdd]

Did the site I sent at the beginning help in any way? I'm just curious

 

Regards,

Supra

Edited May 11, 2019 by supraaxdd

[LWC]

Just now, supraaxdd said:

Did the site I sent at the beginning help in any way? I'm just curious

Oh sorry, not really, as it seems to be about internal settings within VirtualBox, which affect the guest virtual machines, not the host.

[supraaxdd]

That's all good, as long as you resolved the problem! I'm not into these things, and I just wanted to see if I can help with an article about it...

Good luck in the future!

 

Regards,

Supra