Needs to happen often, in a loop. > How about pinging several hosts that have a pretty good chance of being up. > www.microsoft.com, www.netscape.com, www.ibm.com, etc, etc. You could also > ping your local gateway address. If all fail (except for the router as the > link may be down beyond that, but if the ping to the router fails, then you > are definetly without connection) then you could assume you've lost > connection. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 January 2002 12:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Computer connected to the internet? > > > How can I check whether the system is connected? > > Want to pause the script if connection is lost. > > /g
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