Bind MagicJack to a network adapter

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urso2001
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Bind MagicJack to a network adapter

Post by urso2001 »

Does anyone know how to bind magicjack to a specific IP address/adapter? I get emailed a couple times a day from my router telling me that it's dropping packets. After some sluthing, it appears magic jack is using the virtual network adapters.

Here is what I've discovered:

I have VMWare running on a host machine that also has magic jack connected. I'm not trying to run magicjack on a guest.

I constantly get log reports that fill up with these lines:
[INFO] Sat Nov 06 09:29:21 2010 Dropped packet from 192.168.157.1 to 68.235.9.34 (IP protocol 17) as unable to create new session
[INFO] Sat Nov 06 09:29:21 2010 Dropped packet from 192.168.60.1 to 68.235.9.34 (IP protocol 17) as unable to create new session

192.168.157.1 and 192.168.60.1 are not on my network. 68.235.9.34 appears to be a magicjack url (talk4free nameservers).

However, I discovered that the two IP address are used by vmware's virtual adapters:

C:\>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.60.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.157.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
...

Has anyone else run in to this?
urso2001
MagicJack Newbie
Posts: 2
Joined: Sat Nov 06, 2010 1:49 pm

Follow-up

Post by urso2001 »

As a followup to my problem, I was able to disable the two VMWare network adapters on the host. Apparently they were used for NAT and Host Only guests. All of my guests are Bridged so I didnt need them.

Problem solved.
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