I use WinXP Professional at home and office. Although I have the same ISP at both, I am required to change the IP address depending on where I am.
I need one script or batch file that I can run under WinXP that will automatically change my IP from:
172.16.10.23 to 192.168.11.8
Then another script that will change it back.
Hopefully a simple problem if you know how!
Thanks
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BTW: the reason you want to make sure to capture everything and make the changes, is that it is highly probable that not only does your IP change, but your default gateway, etc... especially since it appears that those IP Addresses are on different subnets... meaning more changes than just IP are needed! :)
FE
Fatal_Exceptions answer is extremely thorough, and using the "dump" option is the better way to go.. However, if you want specific examples of netsh batch files, I have included 2 below. Both run then display current config and pauses for you to view. You can remove the last 2 lines. 1st is for static IP, second for DHCP. Substitute your values/IP's as necessary. The network connection name is assumed to be the default "Local Area Connection".
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rem Reset network Settings for static IP
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 10.0.0.99 mask = 255.255.255.0
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" gateway = 10.0.0.254 gwmetric = 1
netsh interface ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 24.222.0.1
netsh interface ip add dns name = "Local Area Connection" addr = 24.222.0.2
netsh interface ip show config
pause
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rem Reset network settings for DHCP
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = dhcp
netsh interface ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = dhcp
netsh interface ip set wins name = "Local Area Connection" source = dhcp
netsh interface ip show config
pause
Thanks to you both for your helpful comments - FE for providing comprehensive info, much more than I needed but very interesting and I'm sure useful for the future.
In the end I split the points but accepted RobWill's answer because all I needed was a batch file with one line in it and everything works as intended:
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 172.16.10.23 mask = 255.255.255.0
Thanks for the advice!
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by: Fatal_ExceptionPosted on 2005-11-22 at 05:16:20ID: 15341409
Okay, there are a couple of ways to do this, but for the average user, this utility (free) does the job for you.. I use it on a few of my mobile user's laptops:
NetSetMan is a network settings manager which can easily switch between 5 different, visually structured profiles including:
IP Address
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway
Preferred & Alternate DNS Server
Computer Name
Workgroup
DNS Domain
WINS Server
Default Printer
Run Scripts
http://www.iljaherlein.de/
Or you can use the netsh command:
When you have your laptop correctly configured for your office network, you can save the network configuration for later restoration:
netsh -c interface dump > c:\configs\officeinterface
Now lets say you take it home and reconfigure it correctly for you home network. To save you home network configuration for later use:
netsh -c interface dump > c:\configs\homeinterface.t
OK. Now you take the laptop back to the office and you need to reconfigure for the office environment: nic address, wins, gateway address... Use the following command to restore your office network interface:
netsh -f c:\configs\officeinterface
At end of day, you take it home. To setup for home, run:
netsh -f c:\configs\homeinterface.t
Once you have your 'dump', you just place the config command in BAT file, and execute it depending on each location.
FE