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Nadahar
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Re: Solutions for UMS when it stop sharing on your devices

Post by Nadahar »

The codebase doesn't contain an AI that can "judge" which network interface is probably what the user wants, so it will simply pick the first one listed that has a valid IPv4 address. This usually turns out to be the desirable one, but not always. The order of the network interfaces evaluated depends on the OS. Some Windows updates seems to pretty randomly reorder the network interfaces. My guess is that driver updates sometimes moves a certain network interface "to the end of the list". In any case, if this happens and you happen to have another network interface with a valid IPv4 address that now becomes the first listed, UMS will use this one if nothing is specified.

Specifying which network interface to use will avoid this nuisance.
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