Can we add a feature to bind PLEX to a specific network interface?

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Server Version#:1.25.9.5721

I have a PC with multiple ethernet ports. It would be nice to tell plex to always use port one that is static IP’d to my router and port forwarded for remote access.

That way I can have my second port solely attached to my VPN router, for example. I find that PLEX will randomly choose one of the two ports and when it selects the VPN router’s port it’s limited in remote connectivity of course.

I know there’s the “Preferred Network Interface” option but that seems to just affect local clients, but not the interface that PLEX actually uses as a whole.

Applications like QBittorrent, for example, have this option and it can be very handy.

Binding and Split tunneling is something that Windows lacks but it could be added to applications within Windows and could be very helpful to many users.

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Configure “Custom server access URLs” to point to the specific IP addresses you want the server to advertise.

Otherwise the server will use whatever is configured as the default gateway.

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Hmm, that didn’t seem to work for me.

My issue is, that after a restart of the PC, I’ll open PLEX and see that for “Remote Access” it has chosen the IP range of the VPN router on EN2 and not the IP range of the non-VPN router on EN1. So, for example after a reboot it says “Private 10.1.1.127 : 32400” when I want it to say “Private 192.168.0.55 : 32400” and then have the public IP follow through that router.

The only way I can bring it back is to physically plug the VPN router from the secondary ethernet port and restart plex then it selects Ethernet port 1 and shows “Private 192.168.0.55 : 32400”

If I could tell PLEX to bind to EN1 it would then be talking to the preferred router through the correct ethernet interface is my thinking.

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Manually port forward from your router to the IP of the Plex machine.

Turn off remote access.

Set your Custom server access URLs to point to your local IP AND remote IP separated by a comma.

You don’t need remote access to be turned on if you do everything manually through Custom server access URLs.

eg: https://10.0.0.26:32400,https://your.public.ip:32400

After you do all this then make sure you reload the Plex CLIENT so it pulls the new addresses being advertised.

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