There are several ways to start a dialup connection from the command line in Windows:
START C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\MyISP.lnk
The following commands can be used to start and open a connection:
START RUNDLL32 RNAUI.DLL,RnaDial exact name of dialer entry TRACERT -h 1 -w 1
(Credits for these commands: Michael J. Gregg and Tom Lavedas)
The RUNDLL command starts DUN, the TRACERT command will actually start the dialing process, if and only if automatic dialing is enabled.
Windows NT has some additional, dedicated commands for Dial-Up networking (credits: Simon Sheppard):
Usage:
| RASDIAL.EXE | entryname [ username [ password | * ]] [ /DOMAIN:domain ] [ /PHONE:phonenumber ] [ /CALLBACK:callbacknumber ] [ /PHONEBOOK:phonebookfile ] [ /PREFIXSUFFIX ] |
| RASDIAL.EXE | [ entryname ] /DISCONNECT |
| RASDIAL.EXE |
Usage:
| RASPHONE.EXE | [ -v ] [ -f file ] [[ -e | -c | -d | -h | -r ] entry ] |
| RASPHONE.EXE | [ -v ] [ -f file ] -a [ entry ] |
| RASPHONE.EXE | [ -v ] [ -f file ] -lx link |
| RASPHONE.EXE | -s |
| -a | Popup new entry dialogs | |
| -e | Popup edit entry dialogs | |
| -c | Popup clone entry dialogs | |
| -v | Prevent entry rename with a or e | |
| -d | Popup dial entry dialogs | |
| -h | Quietly hang up the entry | |
| -r | Quietly delete the entry | |
| -s | Popup status dialogs | |
| -lx | Execute command 'x' on dial-up shortcut file |
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| x | Any of the commands a, e, v, c, d, h, or r |
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| entry | The entry name to which the operation applies | |
| file | The full path to the phonebook file | |
| link | The full path to the dial-up shortcut file | |
'entry' alone selects the entry in the phonebook dialog
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