Re: Checking if the network is up

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

>>>>> "L" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk> writes:

L> Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so
L> that I only run popclient when it is?

I just have my ip-up script (it's a ppp config script, see man pppd)
touch a file in /usr/local/etc/ppp when I connect, and ip-down remove
the file when I disconnect.  Then I can just check for the existence
of that file, and know if I'm connected.  Alternatively, you could
check the output of "netstat -r".

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Rob