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Hi,
I have a Wireless and a LAN interface connected to two different internet sources, and I wanted to assign certain programs to one and certain programs to the other. For example, my local ip address for wireless is 192.168.20.10, while my ip for the lan interface is 192.168.1.69. For instance, I want all some to use wifi, and others i want to run over the lan interface; both are connected to the internet. Is there any program which will let me configure this?

You won't do it with Windows. Windows uses the first Internet connection it finds. If you want to use the second one, you first have to disable the first.
To be able to do it it would have to run as a service as Windows establishes an Internet connection, wired or wireless, before any user logs on. You would have to delve deep into the operating system virtually by-passing all Windows built in network software.
Stuart

To understand what you are asking you would have to know about the OSI model. What you are asking is for what happens at the networking level would happen at the application level.
Never going to happen.
Some programs,like a lan game, want the ip address of the game host server. The program would only use that subnet because its all it knows.
Normal routing has no way to determine WHAT is being transported i.e. which app,because its dealing with packets and only concerned about source and distination. Nothing in the tcp/ip protocol to associate app with route.
What you could do is run your apps in virtual pc [free download] sessions with it configured to only know about that subnet and gateway you want it to run on. You may have to run route command scripts to set the session routing [route /? for more info]
Are you ready for where Microsoft wants you to go today?

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