Sorry for this rambling post. Yes, for the heck of it, I tried it. It worked. The only outgoing connection on the PMS PC, LAN2, was found by Plex. But this LAN1 PMS PC is more than Plex. I want the non-Plex traffic to go out LAN1. In this link I show the ROUTE command I used when I had both LANs up, with LAN1 preferred for outgoing traffic. I also tried “aiming” the ROUTE commands at plex.tv, thinking PMS would try xxx.plex.tv and I would force it to “see” only LAN2. I played with various settings in the interface, etc. I was never able to get it to work. As an aside, and FWIW, I do have another PC on LAN2 on which I installed PMS and pointed it at the same folders as LAN1’s PMS. I can “see” this server from the outside, but it serves up things differently (e.g., wrong matches currently) because it does not have the benefit of my tweaks (corrected matches, sort keys) on LAN1. I share media using Microsoft Networking, so, yes, the LAN2 PC has another NIC for LAN1, and its ROUTE command favors LAN2. If I did something technically wrong in all this, I don’t know what it is. Plex just hides very well the way to do what I’m trying to do, or it’s not possible. What I want is a single server that serves both locally (on a collection of IP-address ranges) and externally via an external IP address on the second NIC in the PMS PC (with the primary NIC being the preferred output). There is a setting for preferred LAN or something like that, and when you set it, you have to restart. I did that. Did not change a thing. Had it worked, I could make my internal LANs be treated as local (using some other GUI options), and all would be fine. I’ve never been able to get this to work right. I even rememberer to make sure the port-forwarding rules were correct (since for ISP2’s router it had to change when I wanted it to go to the second NIC on the LAN1 PMS PC). Whatever! I’ve tried everything! I cannot get this to work. There even IP1/IP2 configuration settings, but it is unclear what they do or how to use them, and when I tried playing with them, it did not solve my problem, so I gave up. This is really so simple. You have a PC with two NICs. You want to accept connections on both NICs. NIC1 will be considered local, NIC2 will be considered external (for purposes of limiting bandwidth). The problem I seem to run into is Plex tests the external connection, and gets it wrong no matter what I do. If Plex did not test…hmmm…that gives me an idea. What if I let Plex think there was no external connection? Would it still accept connections on both NICs? I will look into this at some point, because I don’t remember if I checked this. If I get this to work, I will update this thread, and explain what I did. Thanks.
