using netsh

[bdowen]

This question may be out of place on this forum but I will ask it anyways.

I am using the netsh command. I want to be able to save my network configuration and reconfigure from my saved network configuration so I use the command:

netsh -c interface dump > f:\config.txt

What I get get is a text file call config that has these contents:

# Interface IP Configuration for "Local Area Connection

set address name="Local Area Connection" source=dhcp
set dns name="Local Area Connection" source=dhcp register=BOTH
set wins name="Local Area Connection" source=dhcp

My computer is on a network and I understand these lines to be commands wen the text file config.txt is restored using the command:
netsh -f f:\config.txt

Where my question arrises is that I do not know for sure what the lines in the text file are "storing" When I look at my ipconfig I have a IP Address(which is dynamically made so I am not too concerned about it) but I have a default Gateway address, a DHCP server address, and 5 DNS server addresses. When I restore using the above command, are these address restored. In other words what exactly is stored in text file that netsh dump produces???

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[bcastner]

The lines are not "storing" anything other than script parameters for specific DLLs to be called by NETSH.

It helps to think of NETSH as a kind of scripting host, similar to WSH. What the dump serves is as a kind of scripting utility for NETSH.

See if this link helps any:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/netsh_int_ip.asp

 

[bdowen]

thanks for the link, One more question though.

Do you know what this syntax means:
set dns name="Local Area Connection 2" source=static addr=(some #) register=BOTH

if I have more than one DNS Server address, only one shows up here from the "dump" output, how do I get the "dump" output to include all of the DNS Server addresses?

 

[bcastner]

It gets the rest from the DHCP server.
Or, it should.