command line parameters for toggling between firewall policies

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hello!

I’d like some help on command line parameters to enable different modes of firewall.

my broadband connection is set up such that is always connected, i do not have to dial.

and my happy hour is from 2 am to 8 am (unlimited download time). which is why i have scheduled my torrent and other download applications to run between the above timings.

now, i usually wake up and i manually close the applications at about 7:30 am.

but on days i fail to up wake before 8, my downloads continue while eating up my bandwidth quota of the non free time.

so i figured if i could automatically turn on the “block all” mode of the firewall at 7:30 … no network activity would be allowed right? in other words am stopping all download activity well before 8am.

to make something like this happen first off i need to know the command line parameters to turn on the “allow all”, “custom” and “block all” modes.

and then saving the command line instruction as a batch file to be executed through scheduled tasks at a desired time :slight_smile:

so now if anybody could please tell me the command line parameters for enabling / toggling between different firewall policies?

thanks a lot , have a great day! :smiley:

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G’day,

I don’t actually know that there are any command line parameters for CFP, but you can achieve a similar result using the shutdown.exe utilitiy included in WinXP.

Just create a batch file with the following;

shutdown -f -r -t xxxxx

The “-f” forcibly closes all running applications, the “-r” forces a shutdown and reboot and the “xxxxx” is the number of second to wait before shutting down.

If you wanted the PC to be rebooted at 7:30AM and you were runnign this batch file at 10:30PM, the parameters would be as follows;

shutdown -f -r -t 32400

Hope this helps,
Ewen :slight_smile:

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hey panic!
Thanks for replying back. That solution is great but i do have a software to do that. so i dont have to really execute the shutdown as a batch file.

but based upon that it hit me that i could close programs anyway :slight_smile: so i saved a .bat file with

“taskkill /f /im Azureus.exe
taskkill /f /im uTorrent.exe
@exit”

so thank you :slight_smile: