On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:22 +0530, dipankar das wrote: > > What is the way for Bash to know if the the network is on or not? I want my Don't know if this will help, but try - ********************************** [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo pon dsl-provider Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ plog Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: CHAP authentication succeeded: Authentication success,Welcome! Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: peer from calling number 00:E0:FC:47:53:45 authorized Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: local IP address 59.93.65.213 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: remote IP address 59.93.64.1 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: primary DNS address 218.248.255.145 Oct 17 23:05:33 localhost pppd[10408]: secondary DNS address 61.1.96.71 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo poff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ plog Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Terminating on signal 15 Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Connect time 0.4 minutes. Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Sent 360 bytes, received 558 bytes. Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Connection terminated. Oct 17 23:05:56 localhost pppd[10408]: Exit. ****************************************** Well, if your link is down, plog returns an "Exit" -- --K.Ghosh 093 910 58 749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user No.301508
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