Entering IP info from Command line under XP

[Guest]

Good morning,

Is it possible to enter your IP address, gateway, subnets, dns, from the
command line?
My senario is this. At my desk I have a static IP address, if I move to
another building, I no longer can use the static and must go to DHCP. I would
like a quick way to configure my IP between the two.
Thanks

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

Good morning,

Is it possible to enter your IP address, gateway, subnets, dns, from the
command line?
My senario is this. At my desk I have a static IP address, if I move to
another building, I no longer can use the static and must go to DHCP. I would
like a quick way to configure my IP between the two.
Thanks

The "netsh" command does exactly what you want. To set a static IP
address:

netsh interface ip set address <connection> static <ip> <mask>
<gateway> <gateway metric>

To use DHCP:

netsh interface ip set address <connection> dhcp

For example:

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection"
static 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.254 10

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp

This article has more information:

How to Use the Netsh.exe Tool and Command-Line Switches
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=242468
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[Guest]

Ok here is what worked. For reference, my connection is named "Static". I put
this in a batch file called Static.bat:

cls
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set address "Static" static
10.10.10.10 255.255.255.0 10.10.10.10 1
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set dns "Static" static 10.10.10.10
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip add dns "Static" 10.10.10.10
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip show address "Static"
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip show dns "Static"

pause
exit

And while I was at it, wrote a file called dhcp.bat which releases all
settings:

cls
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set address "Static" dhcp
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip set dns "Static" dhcp
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip show address "Static"
c:\winnt\system32\netsh.exe interface ip show dns "Static"

pause
exit