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[Vadim Smirnov]

Your system can use more than one network adapter at the same time. However, to determine the default Internet interface, you can use GetBestInterface and specify some well-known IP address as a parameter, such as 1.1.1.1.

[Vadim Smirnov]

As I mentioned above, I once re-implemented NAT as a C++/CLI class library having the interface below. However, it’s a little complicated for the sample and I also need to preserve some sugar cubes for the customers.

// natcl.h

#pragma once

using namespace System;
using namespace Collections::Generic;
using namespace Threading;
using namespace msclr::interop;

namespace nat_managed_lib
{
public ref class managed_network_adapter_info sealed
{
String^ adapter_name_;
String^ friendly_name_;
List<String^>^ ip_addresses_;

public:
property String^ AdapterName
{
String^ get() { return adapter_name_; }
void set(String^ value) { adapter_name_ = value; }
}

property String^ FriendlyName
{
String^ get() { return friendly_name_; }
void set(String^ value) { friendly_name_ = value; }
}

property List<String^>^ IpAddresses
{
List<String^>^ get() { return ip_addresses_; }
void set(List<String^>^ value) { ip_addresses_ = value; }
}
};

public ref class nat_wrapper sealed
{
public:
event EventHandler^ AdaptersListChangeEvent;

private:
ManualResetEvent^ adapters_list_change_notify_event_;
Thread^ adapter_list_change_notify_thread_;
volatile bool is_adapter_list_change_thread_active_ = true;

bool set_adapter_list_change_event();
void adapter_list_change_thread();

native::nat_unmanaged* native_nat_provider_;

public:
explicit nat_wrapper(String^ device_name);
!nat_wrapper();
~nat_wrapper();

List<managed_network_adapter_info^>^ get_network_adapters();

Boolean set_nat_parameters(
// provider interface name
String^ provider,
// client interface name
String^ client,
// provider IP address to be used for NAT (adapter may have multiply IP addresses)
String^ nat_ip,
// DNS IP address for DNS forwarding
String^ dns_ip,
// Enable DNS forwarding (redirect DNS requests to the IP above). Otherwise client provided IP is used for DNS.
Boolean dns_forwarding
);

Boolean start_nat();
Boolean stop_nat();
Boolean is_started();

Boolean is_ip_routing_dynamic_success();

void re_initialize();

Boolean block_client_ip_address(String^ ip_address);
Boolean block_client_mac_address(String^ mac_address);
};
}

[Vadim Smirnov]

Unfortunately, no. Personally, I prefer C/C++ for protocol header manipulation, and when I had a need for NAT in a C# project, I implemented it as a C++/CLI class library.

[Vadim Smirnov]

I would start with port forwarding on your router and firewall configuration on the server. It looks like the handshake packet can’t get through.

[Vadim Smirnov]

If you had problems with v1.2.4 and don’t have them with v.1.2.5, then it was probably the same bug reported here.

[Vadim Smirnov]

Using a VPN may affect your ping, the details depend on the location of the VPN and the game server. Sometimes you can win, sometimes you can lose. Wiresock software itself has very low latency, unless you use verbose logging, don’t forget that I/O operations are always expensive.

[Vadim Smirnov]

Hmm, are you sure the handshake was successful? If you’re using stock Wireguard for Windows on the client side, what tunnel statistics do you see?

[Vadim Smirnov]

I assume you have installed official WireGuard for Windows and Wiresock VPN Gateway and created the Wireguard tunnel using wg-quick-config. I also assume that port forwarding is configured on your router, and you can connect to your Wireguard server using the client application. Correct?

Please check, can you ping the Wireguard server virtual IP address from the client? It should normally work even without Wiresock VPN Gateway service running, which is only responsible for forwarding client connections to the external network.

It could also be helpful if you could share server and client configuration files (just strip endpoint and key information out).

[Vadim Smirnov]

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve resolved the issue in v.1.2.5, please give it a try.

[Vadim Smirnov]

Thanks for testing. I’ve slightly improved the logic. Please update to v.1.1.18.

[Vadim Smirnov]

The requested extended parameter to exclude applications (DisallowedApps) was added in v.1.1.16. Please give it a try.

[Vadim Smirnov]

There are three small features that I would like to add to the next version. I hope to be ready in a week or two, depending on whether I have enough spare time.

[Vadim Smirnov]

If you have IPv6 enabled and use an IPv6 DNS (e.g. iPhone hotspot) then no traffic goes via the tunnel.

Could you please collect the wiresock application log and PCAP files for this setup and can send the files/link to [email protected]? It should help me to understand what is going on.

[Vadim Smirnov]

We can check what is going on by analyzing log and PCAP files:

Troubleshooting
If you experience any problems, then first try starting the application/service with ‘-log-level all‘ command line parameter. If you run it as an application, then it dumps the debug log directly on the console, while service will save the log into the file located in C:\ProgramData\NT Kernel Resources\WireSock VPN Client. In both cases, all processed network packets will be stored in PCAP files (can be opened and analyzed in Wireshark) in the C:\ProgramData\NT Kernel Resources\WireSock VPN Client.

Please note that ‘-log-level all‘ exists for debug purposes only and significantly affects the application performance.

[Vadim Smirnov]

Typically, if the system is configured with both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS, DNS queries are sent to both. Thus, most applications should work fine. Please check if browsers are working good via wiresock and the only problem you are having is with using nslookup.

The latter seems to always default to an IPv6 DNS address if available, and this is where we have some issues.

 

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