Hi everyone,

What would the Windows equivalent be for the following commands?

ifconfig eth0 down && ifconfig eth0 up && /etc/init.d/named restart

Essentially, there is a Windows 2000 server that has two NICs, named "Inside" and "Outside". "Inside" has a static IP, and "Outside" gets an IP via DHCP from an ISP. Whenever it renews its IP address, the routing table gets mucked up. The simplest way to fix it is to disable "Inside" and the re-enable it. Since the DNS service binds to "Inside", that needs to be restarted as well.

TIA.

HEhe, maybe you should be asking this in some MS forum, if there are any, or googling it.

Not completely sure I understand what you are looking for, but how about this:

ipconfig /release <adapter>
ipconfig /renew <adapter>

Well, I have tried other forums, but so far no bites. Googling is a great idea, I always start off by googling when I have a question.

I understood that this forum was not limited to Linux? If I am wrong I will take my silly problem elsewhere, but I hope I am not because there are some really, really smart people here!

Thanks for the reply, deissum, but I am not trying to renew my IP address. What I am trying to do is disable the adapter. Once it is disabled, I want to re-enable it. For whatever reason, this fixes the routing table. Finally, after the two previous things are done, I need to restart DNS Server since it is bound to the adapter that I will be disabling. I know that the executable is DNS.EXE, but I simply don't know how to restart it through a script.

Thanks again.