How to set a name for (not rename) a network interface in Windows from the command line?

Question

I found how to rename:

netsh interface set interface name="Old Name" newname="New Name"

or, with PowerShell:

Get-NetAdapter -Name "Old Name" | Rename-NetAdapter -NewName "New Name"

What I need is to set a name for an Ethernet card I do not know the name of. The reason I need this is that some computers I'm servicing remotely simply reset their IP configuration by themselves from time to time (this is what the clients claim) and I need to be able to set them back to a working configuration automatically. Upon fixing this issue, the script seems easy to build:

netsh interface ip set address "connection name"^
 static 192.168.1.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
netsh interface ip add dns "connection name" 8.8.8.8
netsh interface ip add dns "connection name" 208.67.220.220 index=2

Answer 1

You can't name an interface, you can only rename it.

To get the current names of the interfaces on the computer you can use netsh interface show interface and then use some scripting fu to extract the name of the interface that you need.