DOS command to connect or disconnect from PPPoE connection?

[Arya]

Hello

Is there any commands in DOS that would connect and disconnect your PPPoE (DSL) connection?

Best Regards!

[homecomputeraid]

You could try [edit]ipconfig /release on the PPPoE adapter to disconnect, but I'm not sure there's a way to connect via command line.

[edit]Sorry, I've been working on Linux a lot lately and put ifconfig instead of the Windows command ipconfig!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

You could try ifconfig /release

Did you mean ipconfig ?

[Hb_Kai]

I think there is. But it may not be what you're looking for as I've never used it myself.

There's a tool called RASDIAL which can be used in Command Line in both XP and Vista and should already be usable on your machine but to test it quickly, just open the command line and type

RASDIAL

and if it does work then it should say something like...

C:\........> RASDIAL

No connections.

Command completed successfuly.

To connect:

rasdial ABC123 Horace Password7090

To disconnect:

rasdial ABC123 /disconnect

In this example, I've used ABC123 as your internet connection name, Horace as your username and Password7090 as your password.

Is this what you mean?

[Hb_Kai]

You could try ifconfig /release

Did you mean ipconfig ?

I forgot to say, I think he's referring to the Linux terminal command that will show you a list of the network adapters installed.

[homecomputeraid]

Yes Hb_Kai and Pat, I meant ipconfig instead of ifconfig. Along with viewing interface configuration, ipconfig also lets you perform actions like releasing and renewing IP addresses.

P:\>ipconfig /?

USAGE:
	ipconfig [/? | /all | /renew [adapter] | /release [adapter] |
			  /flushdns | /displaydns | /registerdns |
			  /showclassid adapter |
			  /setclassid adapter [classid] ]

where
	adapter		 Connection name
				   (wildcard characters * and ? allowed, see examples)

	Options:
	   /?		   Display this help message
	   /all		 Display full configuration information.
	   /release	 Release the IP address for the specified adapter.
	   /renew	   Renew the IP address for the specified adapter.
	   /flushdns	Purges the DNS Resolver cache.
	   /registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names
	   /displaydns  Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.
	   /showclassid Displays all the dhcp class IDs allowed for adapter.
	   /setclassid  Modifies the dhcp class id.

The default is to display only the IP address, subnet mask and
default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.

For Release and Renew, if no adapter name is specified, then the IP address
leases for all adapters bound to TCP/IP will be released or renewed.

For Setclassid, if no ClassId is specified, then the ClassId is removed.

Examples:
	> ipconfig				   ... Show information.
	> ipconfig /all			  ... Show detailed information
	> ipconfig /renew			... renew all adapters
	> ipconfig /renew EL*		... renew any connection that has its
									 name starting with EL
	> ipconfig /release *Con*	... release all matching connections,
									 eg. "Local Area Connection 1" or
										 "Local Area Connection 2"

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