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 Message-ID: <41630B3E.1E072A74@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:59:42 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: (De)activating network connection References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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. Brian -- 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/