Overview
What is WaitforIP?
WaitforIP : Hold a batch file until windows has an IP address
In depth
A closer look at WaitforIP
The WaitforIP application was designed to be a small tool that can hold a batch file until Windows has an ip address. This is a windows executable, really only useful for batch file writers, that pauses the batchfile until the host has an ip address that matches the specified mask. In practice, I wrote this to delay execution of certain code until after a relatively slow wireless NIC woke up and got its DHCP in order. This utility uses string matching, it has no concept of subnets, octets, or the arcane. For instance, if you ask it to match "192.16" it will quite happily match both "192.16.a.b" and "192.168.a.b" addresses.
Verdict
Should you download WaitforIP?
WaitforIP runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 25 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
System.
✓
Verified clean. Every WaitforIP build on SoftLookup is scanned for viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors. We re-test on every update.
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At a glance
WaitforIP specifications
- Publisher
-
Eli Fulkerson
- Last updated
- Apr 27, 2026
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 25 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 511
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