How to close TCP and UDP ports via windows command line

Question

Does somebody knows how to close a TCP or UDP socket for a single connection via windows command line?

Googling about this, I saw some people asking the same thing.

Answer 1

If you're runnning on Windows 8,`Windows Server 2012 or above with PowerShell v4 of above installed, you can use the below script. This finds the processes associated with the port & terminates them.

Code

#which port do you want to kill
[int]$portOfInterest = 80

#fetch the process ids related to this port
[int[]]$processId = Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort $portOfInterest | 
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty OwningProcess -Unique | 
    Where-Object {$_ -gt 0} 

#kill those processes
Stop-Process -Id $processId 

Documentation:

• Get-NetTCPConnection - PowerShell's NetStat equivalent
• Select-Object - Pull back specific properties from an object / remove duplicates
• Where-Object - Filter values based on some condition
• Stop-Process - PowerShell's TaskKill equivalent