(De)activating network connection

[Jani Tiainen]

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Thiers Botelho wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wish to use some command within a script to activate / deactivate an
>>Ethernet connection.
>>
>>In WinXP this would normally be done thru Settings / Network Connections /
>>Local Connection / right-click .
>>
>>I found _rasdial.exe_ but it seems to deal only with dial-up connections.
>>
>>There's got to be some simple cmdline on/off switch somewhere (hope that
>>won't be regedit . . .)
> 
> 
> Starting with XP Microsoft realized that it sure would be nice to be
> able to set networking parameters (interfaces, addresses, routing, etc)
> from the command line or scripts.  [Gee, what an idea, huh?  Took them
> long enough to think of that.]
> 
> Try the following or something like it:
> netsh int set interface "Local Area Connection" admin=ENABLED
> 
> Replace ENABLED with DISABLED as appropriate.  I'm not entirely sure of
> the syntax but you can just run netsh and play around with ? and help to
> get it down.

At least I have this netsh.exe available in my win2k system.. Never 
heard about it before this but seems very nice tool indeed.

-- 

Jani Tiainen


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