Disable/enable NIC | Tech Off

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Is there any way to programmatically disable and re-enable a NIC, the way it is done when you select Disable in Control Panel/Network Connections?

I've been looking around Win32 and WMI but can't seem to find a way to do it.

jandvries

Sven Groot wrote:
Is there any way to programmatically disable and re-enable a NIC, the way it is done when you select Disable in Control Panel/Network Connections?

I've been looking around Win32 and WMI but can't seem to find a way to do it.

Look harder Smiley

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=619

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Sven Groot wrote:
Is there any way to programmatically disable and re-enable a NIC, the way it is done when you select Disable in Control Panel/Network Connections?

I've been looking around Win32 and WMI but can't seem to find a way to do it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmi_tasks__networking.asp

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Jan, I think that method will work, thanks for that.

Blowdart, if you read the page, it explicitly says WMI has no method for doing what I want. Wink

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Sven Groot wrote:
Jan, I think that method will work, thanks for that.

Blowdart, if you read the page, it explicitly says WMI has no method for doing what I want.

And then gives you Win32, which you had talked about Tongue Out

I didn't realise you wanted "pure" wmi

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

blowdart wrote:

Sven Groot wrote: Jan, I think that method will work, thanks for that.

Blowdart, if you read the page, it explicitly says WMI has no method for doing what I want.

And then gives you Win32, which you had talked about

I didn't realise you wanted "pure" wmi

Where? All I see is this:

...disable or enable a NIC?

WMI does not have a provider that supports this operation.

Doesn't seem to mention a non-WMI way of doing it. Anyway Jan's method works so it's sorted now.

EDIT: What they call "disabling a connection" is actually just releasing the DHCP lease which wouldn't be enough in my case.

footballism
Another Paradigm Shift!

Sven, when you finish with it, please share your code with us.

Sheva

EricZhong

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/browse_frm/thread/9f82ef9e7bb12ff3/2b3fab1141c6c93e#2b3fab1141c6c93e

google it Big Smile

footballism
Another Paradigm Shift!

EricZhong wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/browse_frm/thread/9f82ef9e7bb12ff3/2b3fab1141c6c93e#2b3fab1141c6c93e

google it