[expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Mad Scientist
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: 1. Anybody know a good way to detect that a network link is active? The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it will work with ppp0 as well. ifconfig | grep interface -A 2 | grep -c UP

Re: [expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread jipe
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:50:52 -0700 Mad Scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: 1. Anybody know a good way to detect that a network link is active? The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it

Re: [expert] Re: Detecting an Active Network Interface

2002-08-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Mad Scientist wrote: The following will output a 1 to standard out if interface is up. I tested with eth0 but I assume it will work with ppp0 as well. ifconfig | grep interface -A 2 | grep -c UP Ahh, cool! And I can adopt that to check the results of a ping (which is what I really need to