found a weird program

[ceriux]

hey i was wondering if anyone knew what this program did exactly because i couldnt understand the description... has to do with some kind of ip configuration? or helping people who run through a router host easyier? idk... will someone check out the page n tell me if it could help anyone out like me?

http://www.brothersoft.com/forcebindip-170191.html

[Baker]

No idea. I don't understand the description, although it mentions games like Quake 3.

[ceriux]

i think it said something about forcing your ip to be something in another description i read about it.

[R00k]

Sounds like a redirect for applications on a network. Probably much how the -ip commandline parameter works, but on a system level. 1st thing that comes to mind is a proxy bot. An application would normally grab the IP address from the winsock, but this lil prog tells it to use a specified ip address. I'm kinda leery of "freeware" hacks like this

Funny how the only screenshot of the program is their DISCLAIMER notice


Although I did find the author's homepage http://www.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/

ForceBindIP can also take the GUID of an interface if for example the IP address is dynamic. To find out the GUID of your interface, run regedit and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces. Find the interface which has the dynamic address and then copy the key name. You can then run ForceBindIP as follows:

ForceBindIP {4FA65F75-7A5F-4BCA-A3A2-59824B2F5CA0} c:\path\to\app.exe

Might have been usefull back in the early DSL days without a router when one had to constantly tell QUAKE what your dynamic ip address was. Before I got a router, I had to start quake like this quake.exe -ip ###.##.###.##.### ]