About Netsh

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What’s Netsh?

Netsh is a command-line scripting utility that allows you modify or script the network configuration. You can add, remove, change, import and export general configuration.

How to check the connection and opened port

netsh -c diag
netsh diag>connect iphost wilde.net 80
Result:
IPHost (wilde.net)
IPHost = wilde.net
Port = 80
Server appears to be running on port(s) [80]

How to configure the TCP/IP protocol

The following command configures the interface named intranet with the static IP address 10.0.0.2, the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, and a default gateway of 10.0.0.1:

netsh interface ip set address name=”intranet” source=static addr=10.0.0.2 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.0.0.1

How to configure Wireless using netsh

To configure an defined wireless network, use this command
netsh wlan connect ssid=”mySSID” name=”WLAN-wilde”

To show your current wireless settings, use this command
netsh wlan show settings

To add an already exported wireless network profile, use this command
netsh wlan add profile filename=”Wireless Network Connection-BOW.xml”

How to export and import network configuration to a file (like informed in my last post)

To export your configuration, just do
netsh –c interface dump > test.txt

When you  import this configuration, use this command
netsh exec test.txt

This article was originally written by:
João Ricardo Wilde Neto
MCTS, MCITP, MCDST, MCT

Please note that English is my second language.
I am trying my best here, but just in case you read an odd sounding sentence every now and then, I hope you will pardon me.