- At a command prompt, type the following:
netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces
- Make a note of the number shown in the Idx column of the output for your network adapter. If your computer has more than one network adapter, make a note of the number corresponding to the network adapter for which you wish to set a static IP address.
- At the command prompt, type:
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="<ID>" source=static address=<StaticIP> mask=<SubnetMask> gateway=<DefaultGateway>
Where:
ID is the number from step 2 above
StaticIP is the static IP address that you are setting
SubnetMask is the subnet mask for the IP address
DefaultGateway is the default gateway
- At the command prompt, type:
netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="<ID>" address=<DNSIP>index=1
Where:
ID is the number from step 2 above
DNSIP is the IP address of your DNS server
- Repeat step 4 for each DNS server that you want to set, incrementing the index= number each time.
Notes:
If you set the static IP address on the wrong network adapter, you can change back to using the DHCP address supplied by using the following command:
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="<ID>" source=dhcp
where ID is the number of the network adapter from Step 2.
