Andrei DANEASA

I wrote a lot how to install loopback adapter, how to set the ip address (either manual or automatically), how to add an entry to hosts file (either manual or automatically). Now let’s add all together into a single script.
The script will do the following:

• call DevCon to install Microsoft Loopback Adapter (you need to download DevCon and save it in the same folder as the script)
• set the IP address and mask for the recently installed loopback adapter
• dinamically read from Windows folder the hosts file
• dinamically read the hostname
• add a new entry to the hosts file with the supplied IP address and hostname
• ping the hostname and check if the supplied IP address is responded
• MOST IMPORTANT: everything is dynamic and automatic. You don’t need to edit the script before each install. Just run it!

You can download this script here:

Silent Install
* you will need to run the .bat file and make sure that you have devcon.exe in the same folder

I am thinking that maybe some users would want to modify the IP address, mask or set another hostname, they would want to set their own parameters. This is the reason why I created another version of the script which wait for user input for IP, Mask and Hostname, but having the default values filled in like this:

You can download this script here:

Interactive Install
* you will need to run the .bat file and make sure that you have devcon.exe in the same folder

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