Change Gateway Programmatically

[Godwin Burby]

Dear Pythoneer,
I need to toggle the gateway ip of my windows xp machine quite
often due to some software requirements. I just want to know whether i
could do it programmatically using Python.
If so how?

[bonono]

Godwin Burby wrote:

Dear Pythoneer,
I need to toggle the gateway ip of my windows xp machine quite
often due to some software requirements. I just want to know whether i
could do it programmatically using Python.
If so how?

I am sure there must be some elegant python way but you may also like
to check out "netsh.exe", which comes with every XP.

[Godwin Burby]

Well netsh turned out to be the perfect solution for my problem(even
though doing it in python would have given me some kicks). I managed it
with two .bat files for toggling the gateway ips. Thank you friend.

[bonono]

Godwin Burby wrote:

Well netsh turned out to be the perfect solution for my problem(even
though doing it in python would have given me some kicks). I managed it
with two .bat files for toggling the gateway ips. Thank you friend.

there is os.system/os.open* if you want to put python in the equation
;-)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Godwin Burby wrote:

I need to toggle the gateway ip of my windows xp machine quite
often due to some software requirements. I just want to know whether i
could do it programmatically using Python.
If so how?

os.system("route ...") could work.

for details on the route command, use "route /?" at the windows command
prompt.

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[Godwin Burby]

Thanx again.