Pretty major network bug in HogPC

Unless I'm just being a massive idiot and missing something.

What happens if you configure your settings in windows?

I was seeing this on a Surface 3. It defaulted to a loopback adapter only (greyed out, couldn't change it).
Briefly played with the Windows network settings, and confirmed I was on the wifi network.
Tried to do a wired network, but my apple ethernet adapter wouldn't work on the surface (shocked).

Both Nics are configured in windows correctly but unless the connections are active when hogpc starts they are unavailable to hog4pc and all interfaces are greyed out.

HES seem to think this is the correct behavior however it causes some real problems in the real world, for example HogPC can no longer be used as a backup console using artnet.

Assuming you have two NICs the artnet NIC will not become active until it is switched to therefore HogPC cannot use that NIC without being exited and restarted, obviously you could add another netwrk switch but again you are adding a level of complexity which was previously not there.

@ ShrunkenNed
My apple USB-Ethernet adapter stopped working with Windows 10 (surface Pro3 at the time), I found some drivers that let me see the adapter but would give me any output. In the end I got a Microsoft USB-Ethernet adapter which has worked flawlessly

Ok I see your problem with the Artnet-Backup. I know that there had been some issues with network adaptors not being recognized correct and so, thats why this had been changed.
For you scenario I would recommend that you get a managable switch and and configure it with spanning tree, so you also create an auto-backup scenario for your artnet.

Hi, I've been testing this and it really doesn't work well.

I've got Cisco switches with spanning tree and with both sources plugged in my nodes just flick between the two sources. Is there an official line from high-end on the best STP settings? It's ridiculous really as it used to work so well before.

I have found a workaround if you want to use a manual failoverover switches, start hogpc with the fixturenet nic connected to a switch then unplug it then it can be put through a manual changeover switch however the moment you unplug and replug a NIC, H4PC looses the ability to modify it as its no longer shown with the correct IP address. Stupid really as it means any network issues cause h4pc to loose this ability.

I had the same thing a month or two ago. I couldn't make it work and gave up.

It never used to be this way, something has changed and not for the better.

Agreed, by fixing visualiser connectivity theyve screwed backup

Guh