anyone know how to change network settings like default gateway and DNS?
my first idea was to do it from the registry but i read somewhere that
it is not good and if OS specific any ideas? thanks
lttleastig 4 Junior Poster in Training
Nick Evan 4,005 Industrious Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
May I ask why you would like to do that? It doesn't sound like a program that I would like to have run on my PC..
L7Sqr 227 Practically a Master Poster
In general, there are command line utilities for this specific to each system route on linux/windows, for example (although very different considering the same name). Writing this in C++ would require that you plug into the networking internals of your particular system making it non-portable.
The best you might achieve is to determine the host in C++ and execute the actual platform specific shell command from there.
lttleastig 4 Junior Poster in Training
I want to make it for use at internet cafe's where they have several modems
and when a connection is slow i just change the gateway
Ketsuekiame 860 Master Poster Featured Poster
There are specific utilities built into server operating systems for just this kind of task.
Also, I'm pretty sure Google will produce results of a piece of software pre-built. I only suggest this because you seem interested only in the business solution and not the process of creation.
If you can't find a pre-built solution, then scripting will be better than coding (VBScript)
But seriously, Windows Server 2003 I believe has traffic management and network aggregation and if not Windows Server 2008 definitely does have it as I use it at work =)
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