I'm working on a project, which should connect to servers through wifi/gprs. Project is an application for Windows CE 6.0 device, I'm writing in Visual Studio 2008 on C#.
I have two severs to work with. The first I have to connect via wifi, second - via gprs. So I need to know, how can I change the method of connecting between wifi and gprs?
I found and tried this way: I turn on both wifi and gprs on my device. So I work via wifi because it has a higher priority. When I need to work via gprs, I turn off wifi (SetDevicePower function). But when I turn wifi on, it doesn't connect back to my Preferred Network.
Also I heard about the way to change priority between gprs/wifi in OS priority table programmatically, but I didn't find any information about how to do this.
I hope you can help me.
I would use the route command from a shell.
lets assume
server1 ip: 123.123.123.1
server2 ip: 123.123.123.2
wifi ip : 192.168.1.101
gateway: 192.168.1.1
gprs ip : 10.1.2.3
gateway: 10.1.1.1
Now you can excute in a command prompt
route add 123.123.123.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1
and
route add: 123.123.123.2 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.1.1.1
This should route all trafic to server 1 over wifi and to server 2 over gprs, without changing a single line of code in your app.
You can verify it worked with
tracert 123.123.123.1
tracert 123.123.123.2
However, you could use your app to periodically perform this task (I assume gprs ip could change from time to time) with Process.Start(...)
- delete route 1
- add route 1
- delete route 2
- add route 2
You even could specify the interface with the IF 2 switch (route list prints the interface id for your network cards).
Another interesting post to read is this one: http://ce4all.blogspot.com/2007/05/routing-ip-traffic-via-specified.html
The author uses the GetAdapterAddresses() and CreateIpForwardEntry() P/Invokes:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms927384.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee495149%28v=winembedded.60%29.aspx