How to restart network card in C++ windows

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I want to restart network interface programmatically, so it could use new mac address defined in registry. How can I do so?

What I have tried:

C++

system("netsh interface set interface [name] disabled")

Which is a noob option of course, and I have to know the [name].

Posted 30-May-16 5:01am

Updated 31-May-16 3:31am

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Richard MacCutchan 30-May-16 11:28am

The name will be listed in the Windows device tree.

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2016-05-31T03:31:00

I have written a small article about networking API on Windows.

Here is a starting point of the Microsoft documenation of the INetCfg interface.

Posted 31-May-16 3:31am