Enter a Netsh Context
Applies To: Windows Server 2008
You can use this procedure to start the network shell and enter a netsh context.
To enter a netsh context
Open command prompt.
At the command prompt, type netsh, and then press ENTER.
Type one of the values from the following table, and then press ENTER.
Netsh contexts
Following are the values you can type to enter a netsh context.
| To enter this context | Type |
|---|---|
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client |
dhcpclient |
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server |
dhcp |
Health Registration Authority (HRA) |
nap hra |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) |
http |
Interface (IPv4 and IPv6) |
interface |
Internet Authentication Service (IAS). IAS is renamed to Network Policy Server. |
nps |
Internet Protocol security |
ipsec |
Network Access Protection (NAP) client |
nap |
Network Bridge |
bridge |
Network Input Output (NETIO) |
netio |
Network Policy Server (NPS) |
nps |
Remote Access |
ras |
Routing |
routing |
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) |
rpc |
Windows Firewall |
firewall |
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security |
advfirewall |
Windows Hypertext Transfer Protocol (WinHTTP) |
winhttp |
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) |
wins |
Windows Sockets (WINSOCK) |
winsock |
Wired Local Area Network (LAN) |
lan |
Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) |
wlan |
Additional information
To enter a context, you can type only enough letters in the context name to allow netsh to uniquely identify the context. For example, to enter the winhttp context from the netsh prompt (that is, netsh>), you can type winh, and then press ENTER.
Some of these contexts are not available at the netsh prompt unless you have previously installed the server role, role service, feature, or other technology. For example, the DHCP server context netsh dhcp is not available at the netsh prompt until after you install the DHCP server role.
Many of the contexts listed above have one or more subcontexts. Subcontexts contain netsh commands that can be run only within the subcontext. For example, to run the add scope command, you must be within the server subcontext of the dhcp context:
netsh dhcp server add scopeparameters
Where parameters are the properties of the scope that you can configure with the command.Network Policy Server (NPS) was formerly known as Internet Authentication Service, and is the Microsoft implementation of a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server and proxy, as well as a client health policy server for Network Access Protection (NAP).