Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jani Tiainen Subject: Re: (De)activating network connection Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:34:16 +0300 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <41630B3E.1E072A74@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.236.144.25 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <41630B3E.1E072A74@dessent.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/