crp Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 When I enter innetsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" gateway=nonethe system responds Ok. and the gateway address is empty.But when I enternetsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" gateway=192.168.1.3the system responds The syntax supplied for this command is not valid. The same results happen if I enternetsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" static 192.168.1.25 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.3So how is one supposed to be able to enable a gateway from the command line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection 2" 192.168.1.x 255.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 x being the ip address for the interfacenote, there is no word static in the commandThat should give the right output.if you just need to add/remove just a gateway separately: route add 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 or route delete 192.168.1.3 Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Thanks :)Yes, good idea about the -p if you are making it permanent.Even more arguments listed here for Route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection 2" 192.168.1.x 255.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 x being the ip address for the interfacenote, there is no word static in the commandThat should give the right output. hmm , the XP sp3 in our office say to include the word 'static' when not using dhcp.not using "static" did not work either. bug? bad documentation? limited feature?if you just need to add/remove just a gateway separately: route add 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.3 or route delete 192.168.1.3 Hope that helps. wow, it has been a LONG time since I used 'route'. I'll try it when i get a chance. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkehoe Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Having never played with this before, this command seemed to work for me, with a response of "Ok.": netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static addr=192.168.2.5 gateway=192.168.2.1 mask=255.255.255.0 gwmetric=1 I think it needs the "gwmetric" parameter, since I got the same error as you without it specified. I assume the value of 1 is "auto" but I couldn't find it documented anywhere.After restarting the machine those values were intact.Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 2, 2011 Author Share Posted March 2, 2011 [...]I think it needs the "gwmetric" parameter, since I got the same error as you without it specified. I assume the value of 1 is "auto" but I couldn't find it documented anywhere. [...]Kevinbing Bing BING !!!Ok , I consider this is a bug and poor documentation Even though netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" gateway=none works just fine without the gwmetric, passing in a gateway IP address REQUIRES gwmetric= sonetsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" gateway=192.168.1.3 gwmetric=1 does work. ThankS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Excellent! Great find there, kkehoe! :thumbsup:Shouldn't be required at all. It certainly is not required in any other OS either from the commandline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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