Force Steam to use the VPN network instead of the local network

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UncleGus Mar 30, 2016 @ 5:50pm

Force Steam to use the VPN network instead of the local network

I have several PCs on my home network, all with Steam installed. In home streaming works fine between these computers. I also have a PC at work, which I can access via VPN. When I connect to the VPN on any of my home PCs, the home PC is assigned an IP address by the VPN and I can connect to my work PC via remote desktop, or I can run a dedicated server on the work PC and connect from my home PC, etc.

However, my home PC's steam client will only detect the other PCs on the home network, despite being on the same (Virtual Private) Network as the work PC.

Is there a way I can force Steam to treat the VPN as the network to stream over and not the local one?

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MasterMind Apr 1, 2016 @ 3:07pm

yah use ForceBindIP GUIv1.5, I use it to do exactly what your looking for...

UncleGus Apr 1, 2016 @ 4:32pm

Thanks for the tip! Great app and easy to use. Unfortunately, when I start steam with the IP bound to my work VPN, it can't connect to the internet to log in. So close...

UncleGus Apr 1, 2016 @ 4:57pm

I tried changing my adapter settings to use the default remote gateway, which basically stopped the internet from working when connected to the VPN. So I set up a proxy on my work box and changed my VPN settings to use that proxy, which worked for browser traffic, but the steam client never hit the proxy when trying to log in, either with forcebindip or without it.

I wish there was a way to change the ip address the app is using at an arbitrary point in time...

UncleGus Apr 1, 2016 @ 5:15pm

Seems that in home streaming won't detect any streamable PCs when I'm connected to the VPN at all, even the local ones.

MasterMind Apr 1, 2016 @ 10:05pm

hmm, its gotta be the way your vpn is setup, i've been using softether vpn and bridged the vpn to my local network, which effectively gave it internet access, I use this method to remote stream to my buddies house and it works great. I don't know what your using as a vpn client but with softether vpn its easy to setup, tried openvpn initially and had problems like your having...so i dumped it and went to softether vpn

Last edited by MasterMind; Apr 1, 2016 @ 10:06pm

UncleGus Apr 2, 2016 @ 1:00am

What is softether VPN? Is that a different way of connecting to a VPN other than the built-in Windows one? Or is a VPN client along the lines of Hamachi and OpenVPN etc.?

MasterMind Apr 2, 2016 @ 6:50am

its a vpn client and server like openVPN, not like Hamachi because hamachi is hosted...you have full control, GUI options, and it also supports OpenVPN and other setups...