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DHCP versus Static IP address login

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by rupertcphelps

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Is there a utility that will allow a configuration change between a static IP and DHCP IP address at login? My company uses static IP addresses. When I go to a client that uses DHCP (or home), I need to switch. I would like to do this at login and save twenty minutes of setting changes and rebootings.

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by paradis

I'm not sure about Windows NT 4, but Windows 2000 includes netsh.exe, which allows such changes to be made via the command line; it can be used interactively or in batch mode. Also, it may be possible to make the change and not have to reboot (if I remember rightly, going from DHCP to static requires a reboot, but vice-versa does not; I could have that backwards)

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