Use both WiFi and Ethernet on Mac

[sameep]

Hello ,

I have the latest iMac. I have two internet connections.
I was wondering if its possible to use the ethernet for Torrent Downloads and the WiFi connection for everything else.

I searched online but couldn't really find a solution.

Thanks in advance

Regards

 

[Yakibomb]

I remember trying to achieve this a while back, but unfortunately I couldn't find any help

 

[Alrescha]

The practical answer is 'no', because data is shipped around the Internet based on IP addresses and not applications. If you wanted to use your Ethernet for communications with other machines you have in the house and the Wi-Fi for Internet, that could be made to work (actually, depending on the set up, it could work that way right out of the box).

A.

 

[meme1255]

It should be possible by using routes - per IP / IP-subnets... I don't how to do that per app manually, however, there's app which claims that it is able to do it.
http://www.proxycap.com

You have to set-up SOCKS proxy on Ethernet and then route torrent traffic to this connection.

SSH -D should do the trick

 

[jeremysteele]

Easiest way, IMO, would be via parallels or vmware. Setup a VM to use for torrenting (ISOs, I hope), select the physical network interface you want it to use, and boom, done.

 

[sameep]

Thanks a lot guys. I'll try the VM option. #