Primary IP Address Incorrect

[Yemble 0]

I have VmWare Workstation installed on my PC, although I rarely use it.  However, I have noticed that AIDA64 displays the Primary IP Address as one of the two VmWare virtual NIC addresses rather than the physical ethernet NIC address of the PC's wired connection.

There does not appear to be any way in AIDA64 to select the correct NIC for the Primary IP Address.

[Fiery 488]

On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2019 at 7:11 PM, Yemble said:

I have VmWare Workstation installed on my PC, although I rarely use it.  However, I have noticed that AIDA64 displays the Primary IP Address as one of the two VmWare virtual NIC addresses rather than the physical ethernet NIC address of the PC's wired connection.

There does not appear to be any way in AIDA64 to select the correct NIC for the Primary IP Address.

The primary IP address is provided by Winsock, and may or may not be the primary network adapter.  In rare cases Windows treats one of the least used network adapters as primary.  We haven't found a way to fix it from our end.

[Yemble 0]

16 hours ago, Fiery said:

The primary IP address is provided by Winsock, and may or may not be the primary network adapter.  In rare cases Windows treats one of the least used network adapters as primary.  We haven't found a way to fix it from our end.

Yea, only when I disable both virtual NICs does AIDA64 show the correct Primary IP.  Oh well, NP, as long as you are already aware of it...

[BenH 0]

It's funny how I posted how to fix this back in 2018.  No response on my post and still has not been fixed...

 

 

[Michael Cramer 0]

On 6/30/2019 at 2:06 PM, Fiery said:

The primary IP address is provided by Winsock, and may or may not be the primary network adapter.  In rare cases Windows treats one of the least used network adapters as primary.  We haven't found a way to fix it from our end.

FYI:  Hope this helps... checking to see if the Address Family is InterNetwork will return you the correct IP address.  See sample C# code below.

        public static string GetLocalIPAddress()
        {
            var host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
            foreach (var ip in host.AddressList)
            {
                if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
                {
                    return ip.ToString();
                }
            }
            throw new Exception("No network adapters with an IPv4 address in the system!");
        }