(tentative) solving the internet sharing bug

[silkevicious]

Hi!
I'm using this amazing program since some years with success so first of all thank you for your work!

During my experience i was only annoyed by the infamous bug of the internet sharing when the server get an electrical power failure.

Today i had some will to try to solve it (yes i tried to use NAT routing but i was unable to communicate between devices but that's another issue).

I kept disabled the "Persistent Internet Sharing" and created a simple .bat file:

@echo off
set a=30
timeout /t %a%
start /B  ws4w.exe restartinternetsharing --network Ethernet
exit

Then created a scheduled task with elevated privileges to launch the .bat at startup, and magically it works.

Previously i tried to enable the boot task delay but without success.

I don't know if this could help you to find a more polished solution but for some reasons it works here (so far...and i hope forever...) :-)

Greeting and thanks again!

[micahmo]

Hey @silkevicious, thank you so much for hopping on here to comment your findings. I love when folks are able to pitch in and help the community, especially when I don't have the time or ability.

What I will say is that the Persistent Internet Sharing option is supposed to do almost exactly what you're suggesting, so I can't explain why your solution works and WS4W doesn't, nor can I think of a better way to incorporate your solution into the app. But I can suggest that anyone with a similar problem should follow your approach. 😊

Previously i tried to enable the boot task delay but without success.

The only thing I would mention here is that, after you set a Boot Task Delay, you have to disable and re-enable the Persistent Internet Sharing. If you didn't do that already, give it a try and let me know if it helps!

[silkevicious]

The only thing I would mention here is that, after you set a Boot Task Delay, you have to disable and re-enable the Persistent Internet Sharing. If you didn't do that already, give it a try and let me know if it helps!

Hmm i tried so many things that i don't remember if i did it already or not. I will try to test your advice maybe next month when i should have more time to do so.