command to enable\disable network card

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Elton Seng Yan Thung

Dear all,
We have just installed wireless AP in our meeting rooms. The objective
is to allow notebook users to using wireless network during the meeting.
Most of the notebook comes with 2 NIC (wired and wireless ) today. Our
policy is to have a NIC work at the same time only. If the user is on his
desk, he\she should use wired nic only. If in meeting room, the wired NIC
should be disabled. It is to avoid unnecessary routing and roaming problem.
In order to simplify the process for our users, we are trying to create
2 shortcut in their desktop to
1) Enable wired and disable wireless when they are in their desk
2) Enable wireless and disable wired when they are in meeting.
I been searching the net and don't find a command to do so in script or
batch file. I heard netsh command is able to accomplish the task. But I just
not able to find the syntax for the task. For the reason, your advise and
help is needed.

thanks
 
Hi

Hope this helps,

If you want to disable the interface to prevent traffic from being passed
by the network adapter, you can use the Netshell tool to set a different IP
address (such as a private IP address) or default gateway (which in effect,
disables the network adapter). The following example shows the syntax for
this configuration:

netshell interface ip set address interface_name static ip_address
subnet_mask default_gateway metric

For additional information about the Netshell tool, click the article
number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
242468 - How to Use the Netsh.exe Tool and Command-Line Switches

Reference links:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;242468
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262265
For details about Using netsh command:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=
/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/netsh.asp


Shilpa Sinha
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Why that way, i should be able to use "netsh interface set interface name={IFName} admin=enabled connect=disconnected"? to do that, it sound more natural to me, but it doesn't work, could any body explain that to me.
 
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