Change Network Adapter Setting to DHCP

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BZink picture BZink · Apr 4, 2011 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I'm trying to write a few short scripts with netsh. One to change an adapter to static addressing and one to change the same adapter back to DHCP.

I can get the adapter set with all of the correct static address settings with 

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" static 10.61.1.253 255.255.255.0 10.61.1.1 1

This works fine. When I run the following command (a script) to switch back to DHCP I get an error message.

netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp

DHCP is already enabled on this interface.

This is on a Windows 7 machine.

Any idea what the problem is?

Answer

Joe Kidd picture Joe Kidd · Jan 27, 2012

It took me a while of "?" in the command to figure this one out as I had the same issue, but here is the syntax that worked for me in Windows 7: netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area connection" source=dhcp

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