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_Jitsu_:
As far as i know there is much easier way to do such thing.
You can essentialy force windows to change the network card binding order... or maybe network ADAPTERS to be specific, because it will work also if you you're using the same card for both thing (even though it's physically the same device, you get two network bindings.)

1)Open up your network connections.

2) Find the menu bar. If there is none, hit ALT, it should show up.

3) Advanced tab -> Advanced Settings

4) First tab, first group box. Move up your MOST PREFERED connection (probably ethernet via cable) up to the top.

5) There, done. All incoming/outgoing connections WILL be using that binding as a favorite setting, however...

There is one more thing to that. Since the way it's handled, you cannot set application specific binding... but... you can most probably make windows think that the first one is unavaible.
I have few things on my mind. You can try basically forcing apps to block the first one, to do that:

1) You can try binding to static IP, as the previous user mentioned
2) Using IPv4 OR v6 EXCLUSIVE for some apps, and turning them off for specific connections. That is for example - your ethernet bind only works with v6 and wireless with v4. That way you can set some apps to use ONLY the one you want.
3) Change your router setting to disallow connections from specific apps like torrent. Hopefully there is a way for you to distinguish one from another if they're going through the same router.
4) You can try limiting the app from using the said connections by some 3rd party applications. NetLimiter2 would be my best bet.

Honestly i'm at blank right now, since i didn't ever try to do such thing, except for my nix-based router, but connection preference wasn't really my intention there. Oh right... maybe you can set your ROUTER to favor one or another protocol - try going through the config - especially the QoS (or Quality of Service if it's not an abberv.)

Hope it helped a lil bit.

Pentium100:
Setting connection priorities won't make uT use the other connection.

You still need to go to uT Options->Preferences>Advanced and set net.bind_ip and net.outgoing_ip to the IP address of the connection you want uTto use. If that connection has a dynamic IP, you will have to change the setting every time your IP changes, torrents won't work until you do it.

If your "torrent" connection has a dynamic IP the best way to do it is using a virtual (or real) machine for each connection. VMware server was free the last time I checked and it works quite well.

(I assume you use Windows XP or 2003; Instructions are based on VMWare server version 1)

The way you do it is like this:
(click to show/hide)1.After installing VMWare server, go to Start->All Programs->VMware->VMware server->Manage Virtual networks
2.Go to Automatic Bridging and uncheck the checkbox "Automatically bridge an available physical network adapter to VMNet0". Apply
3.Now go to Host Virtual Adapters, delete all of them except one. Apply.
4.Go to DHCP and NAT, stop the services and remove DHCP subnets. Apply.
5.Now go to Host Virtual Adapters and make it look kinda like this:


Note, in my case, Fujitsu Siemens card would be the "torrent" card. You can have bridged that to whatever VMNet you want, also make sure you have a "VMware Network Adapter" bridged to some other VMnet.

6.OK.

Now we have this: VMnet0 - "torrent" connection; VMnet8 - "VMware Network Adapter". If it's different for you, just change the numbers when I mention them.

7. Now you want to make sure that the host OS does not use the "torrent" connection. Go to Network Connections, right click on that connection ->properties and uncheck all items in the list except "VMware Bridge Protocol"


8.Go to the properties of VMWare Network Adapter VMnet8" and give it an IP address so that it does not conflict with existing subnets (I'll use 192.168.6.1, subnet mask 255.255.255.0) and no Default Gateway or DNS IPs.

Network setup finished.

9. Now start the VMware Server Console, File ->New->Virtual Machine
10. Next.
11. Custom config. Next.
12. I assume you will be using Windows XP, so select "Microsoft Windows" and choose Windows XP (home or pro) from the drop down menu. Next.
13.If you want, you can make up a name for your virtual machine, also set where the virtual machine files wil be located (that drive needs to have at least 5GB free space).
14.This you can leave checked or uncheck. If checked, only your user will be able to access the machine. If unchecked, you will be able to make the machine start automatically when you start the physical computer. Next.
15.This is where you can set it. If you unchecked the checkbox in step 14, you can give the machine to "Local system account" and you will have the option to automatically start and shutdown the virtual machine when you turn your computer on and off respectively. Next.
16.Unless you have a very fast internet connection and a slow multicore CPU, one CPU will be enough. Next.
17.You should allocate at least 512MB RAM, though this depends on how much RAM you actually have. uT can work with 256MB as well. Next.
18.Choose "Do not use a network connection at this time". Next.
19.Just leave SCSI adapter as BusLogic. Next.
20.Create a new virtual disk. Next. IDE. Next.
21.Size - set 5-8GB, depending on how much free space you have, check "Allocate all disk space now". If the file system on the hard drive is FAT32, check "Split disk into 2GB files". Next.
22.You can leave the name as is. The file will be created where you chose the location for your virtual machine. Next.

The virtual machine is created, now we have to add two network cards for it.

23.Click "Edit virtual machine settings". You'll get something like this, but without the network cards:


24.Click Add... Next.
25.Ethernet Adapter. Next.
26.Custom - select VMnet0 from the list. Check "Connect at power on". Finish.

27. Repeat steps 24-26, but this time choose VMnet8.

Now you have a virtual machine with two network cards and a network like this:


28. Now, mount Windows install CD (or its image) as the CD drive of the virtual machine and install Windows there.
29. Install VMware tools on the virtual machine (VM->Install VMware Tools).
30. Share a hard drive on your host OS where you keep the files that you download/seed (let's say the name is BitTorrent).
31. In the guest OS, configure the VMnet8 network card to have IP address 192.168.6.254, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, no gateway or DNS. Configure the VMnet0 network card as you would your real "torrent" connection. If it has dynamic IP, most likely it is DHCP ("Obtain IP automatically).
32. Connect to your shared hard drive on \\192.168.6.1\BitTorrent, map it as, say, Z:.
33. Copy uTorrent to the guest OS and start it.

Now, anything that you run in the guest Os will use the "torrent" connection. Anything you run on the host OS will use the "normal" connection.

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