hi every1,i was wondering if theres any KB article explaining in depth what the following parameters mean and theyr effects in terms of networking:netsh interface ipv4 set interfaceParameters: Tag Value interface - Interface name or index. forwarding - Whether packets arriving on this interface can be forwarded to other interfaces. advertise - Whether router advertisments are to be sent on this interface. The default is disabled. mtu - The MTU of this interface. The default is the natural MTU of the link. siteid - The Site-id can no longer be configured from netsh. metric - Interface metric, added to route metrics for all routes over the interface. firewall - The Firewall can no longer be configured from netsh. siteprefixlength - Default length of global prefix for the site. nud - Whether neighbor unreachability detection is enabled. Default depends on type of interface. basereachable - Base reachable time (in ms). retransmittime - Retransmit time (in ms). dadtransmits - Number of duplicate address detection transmits. routerdiscovery - Can be enabled, disabled, or controlled by DHCP. managedaddress - Whether managed address configuration is enabled.Setting this parameter will have no effect on an interface that has router discovery enabled & advertising disabled. In that case the parameter is controlled by router discovery. otherstateful - Whether other stateful configuration is enabled. Setting this parameter will have no effect on an interface that has router discovery enabled & advertising disabled. In that case the parameter is controlled by router discovery. weakhostsend - Whether weak host sends are enabled. weakhostreceive - Whether weak host receives are enabled. ignoredefaultroutes - Ignores default routes on the interface. Default: Disabled advertisedrouterlifetime- Router lifetime (in seconds).Default is 1800. advertisedefaultroute- Whether interface will be advertised as default router. currenthoplimit - Hop limit in outbound traffic. store - active: Set only lasts until next boot. persistent: Set is persistent. forcearpndwolpattern - Whether address resolution and neighbor discovery packet patterns are configured to wake up the machine. enabledirectedmacwolpattern - Whether directed MAC packet patterns are configured to wake up the machine. Remarks: Modifies interface configuration parameters. Example: set interface "1" metric=2 forwarding=enabled store=activea couple of them i know what they do but not for the most of 'em,i found some very short explanation in the msdn libraries but not enuff details so i can understand what impacts they cause in my network...any suggestion is greatly appreciated!!Kind regards,RR

Hi, I would like to share the following with you: How to Use the Netsh.exe Tool and Command-Line Switches The Netsh Command-Line Utility Netsh Technical ReferenceHope this helps. Thanks.Nicholas Li - MSFT

Oops i have missed this reply hehe thx alot Arthur Li,am going to look at those and then post back here how cool they are hehe :Dthx again and kind regards,RR