Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:32:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: francisco@natserv.com Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to tell if connected to internet? Message-ID: <199809221032.LAA21410@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:40:50 -0000." <199809192240.SAA06906@federation.addy.com>
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> On 19-Sep-98 Brian Somers wrote:
> >> What command can I use to tell if I am connected to the internet?
> >> I found "show ipcp" in ppp, but I am looking for something that would
> >> either return 0/1 or that I could call on shell script and parse the
> >> status.
> >
> > There's an example in pppctl(8).
>
> Tried the following from the example:
> pppctl -p '' -v /var/run/internet quit
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>
> I get the error
> Can not connect to socket /var/run/internet
Read the pppctl man page. You need ``set socket'' in your ppp config.
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> francisco@natserv.com
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