Enable/Disable Network interface via command line

Question

Hi guys,

Anybody here who could point me to a resource or a command line instruction to disable a network interface in Windows 7? Your help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Em

Answer 1

This should do it:

   netsh interface set interface name="Local Area Connection" admin=disabled

Subsitute the actual network connection name if it isn't Local Area Connection.

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Answer 2

You can use the following command to release the ip address of all the adapters. It will not disable any adapter, it will just disable the internet connectivity.

ipconfig /release

Re-enabling the internet

ipconfig /renew

Hope it helps...

Answer 3

Thanks EddieZA

With your post I was able to create a batch file that I can use to enable/disable my LAN and Wireless adapters individually or simultaneously.

The problem was that it had to be run with elevated privileges. So I created a shortcut to the batch file and used the "Run as administrator" option on the shortcut to run the batch file with the necessary elevated rights.

If anyone else might appreciate having this utility here's the batch file I'm using now...

@echo off

cls

goto Choices

REM use this command to determine what the adapter index number is

REM wmic nic get name, index

:Top

choice /c:123456

If ERRORLEVEL == 6 goto Enable_Wireless_Disable_LAN

If ERRORLEVEL == 5 goto Enable_LAN_Disable_Wireless

If ERRORLEVEL == 4 goto Disable_Wireless

If ERRORLEVEL == 3 goto Disable_LAN

If ERRORLEVEL == 2 goto Enable_Wireless

If ERRORLEVEL == 1 goto Enable_LAN

goto EOF

:1

:Enable_LAN

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=9 call enable

goto :EOF

:2

:Enable_Wireless

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=7 call enable

goto :EOF

:3

:Disable_LAN

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=9 call disable

goto :EOF

:4

:Disable_Wireless

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=7 call disable

goto :EOF

:5

:Enable_LAN_Disable_Wireless

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=9 call enable

goto :4

:6

:Enable_Wireless_Disable_LAN

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=7 call enable

goto :3

:Choices

echo 1 Enable LAN

echo 2 Enable Wireless

echo 3 Disable LAN

echo 4 Disable Wireless

echo 5 Enable LAN / Disable Wireless

echo 6 Enable Wireless / Disable LAN

goto Top

:EOF

Answer 4

this does not work for me

error of invalid method parameter

the 7 has to have the slash below it?

how do you get that

Answer 5

Start elevated Command Prompt.

Get NIC list and index number:

wmic nic get name, index

Enable NIC with index number: (eg: 7)

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=7 call enable

Disable NIC with index number: (eg: 7)

wmic path win32_networkadapter where index=7 call disable

This should work also with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, or only on 32bit versions?

Thanks.