I have been wondering if there is a way to for safari to use a specific interface. here is my situation. I have my ethernet hardwired in and my wireless connected to two different networks I would like safari to be force to use my bluetooth one since that is completely private (I have a data-plan on my phone to use as a modem). but there are other resources on the other network (ethernet) that I need to be able to access at the same time. such as shared drives and other stuff. I don't want to use the ethernet for web browsing. does anyone know if this is possible?
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Force network interface for safari
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It's pretty much down to the routes you have on the box. Open the terminal and do 'netstat -rn' and you'll see something like this:
You'll have additional routes for each network. The 'default' route at the top will be the route used to get out to the public internet.
You can change the default route to be your bluetooth network as long as you know what the address for the router is.
Add a new default route like this
route add default the.blootouth.ip.address
Then delete the old route
route delete default the.old.gateway.ip
You will still be able to connect to stuff on your local network, providing it is on the same subnet, if it isn't you'll need to add specific routes for other networks.
If you want this to persist across a reboot you'll probably need to do something with NetInfo but I'm not sure what.
Code:
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 192.168.0.1 UGSc 50 11 en0
127 127.0.0.1 UCS 0 0 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 13 21107 lo0
169.254 link#4 UCS 0 0 en0
192.168.0 link#4 UCS 3 0 en0
192.168.0.1 0:14:bf:xx:xx:xx UHLW 50 2 en0 1174
192.168.0.10 0:d:b:xx:xx:xx UHLW 0 120 en0 904
192.168.0.104 127.0.0.1 UHS 0 4 lo0
192.168.0.255 link#4 UHLWb 3 110 en0You'll have additional routes for each network. The 'default' route at the top will be the route used to get out to the public internet.
You can change the default route to be your bluetooth network as long as you know what the address for the router is.
Add a new default route like this
route add default the.blootouth.ip.address
Then delete the old route
route delete default the.old.gateway.ip
You will still be able to connect to stuff on your local network, providing it is on the same subnet, if it isn't you'll need to add specific routes for other networks.
If you want this to persist across a reboot you'll probably need to do something with NetInfo but I'm not sure what.