Powershell - Managing the status and configuration of network interfaces

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Hello, here is a set of commands for viewing and modifying the status and configuration of network interfaces. The menu includes renaming a network interface, disabling IPv6, enabling/disabling an interface, etc.

There are other commands specific to the configuration of VMQ, QOS, RDMA, RSS, SRIOV, etc. that I won’t go into in this article.

IP configuration will be the subject of a future article.

# List network commands with the status and configuration of network interfaces
Get-Command -Noun NetAdapter*

# List network interfaces
Get-NetAdapter

# List physical network interfaces only
Get-NetAdapter -Physical

# List enabled physical network interfaces only
Get-NetAdapter -Physical | Where-Object Status -eq Up

# List network interfaces as well as hidden ones
Get-NetAdapter -IncludeHidden

# List a network interface using its description
Get-NetAdapter -InterfaceDescription *realtek* # List a network interface using its description

# List a network interface using its index
Get-NetAdapter -InterfaceIndex 4

# List a network interface using its name
Get-NetAdapter -Name ‘Ethernet 3’

# List a network interface using its name and a wildcard character
Get-NetAdapter -Name ‘Ethernet*’ # Rename a network interface using its name and wildcard character

# Rename a network interface
Rename-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet -NewName LAN

# Enable a network interface
Enable-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet

# Disable a network interface
Disable-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet

# Display information such as status, link speed or Vlan ID
Get-NetAdapter | Select-Object -Property Name, Status, Linkspeed, VlanID

# Display information such as the driver used by a network interface
Get-NetAdapter | Select-Object -Property Name, DriverName, DriverVersion, DriverInformation, DriverFileName

# Display all the properties of a network interface
Get-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet | Select-Object -Property *

# Rename a network interface
Get-NetAdapter -Name Ethernet | Rename-NetAdapter -NewName LAN1

# Display the bindings (transport or filter) of network interfaces
Get-NetAdapterBinding -Name Ethernet -AllBindings

# List network interfaces with IPv6 enabled
Get-NetAdapterBinding -Name * | Where-Object -FilterScript { ($_.ComponentID -eq 'ms_tcpip6') -and ($_.Enabled -eq $true) }

# Disable IPv6
Set-NetAdapterBinding -Name Ethernet -ComponentID ms_tcpip6 -Enabled $false

# Display the status of network interface power management functions
Get-NetAdapterPowerManagement -Name Ethernet | select Name, WakeOnMagicPacket

# Modify the state of a network interface power management feature
# Enable WakeONlAN
Set-NetAdapterPowerManagement -Name Ethernet -WakeOnMagicPacket Enabled
# Note: the interface must be restarted to apply the configuration.

# Restart a network interface
Restart-NetAdapter -Name LAN

# Display the advanced configuration of the network interface
Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name Ethernet | Select-Object -Property DisplayName, DisplayValue, ValidDisplayValues
# Or
Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name Ethernet | Select-Object -Property DisplayName, RegistryKeyword, Registryvalue

# Modify an advanced network interface configuration using display values
Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name Ethernet -DisplayName 'Vlan ID' -DisplayValue 2
# Note: the interface must be restarted to apply the configuration.

# Modify an advanced network interface configuration using registry values
Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name Ethernet -RegistryKeyword RegVlanid -RegistryValue 2
# Note: This modification requires the interface to be restarted in order to apply the configuration.