> I'm having a router co-located in a different location. I'm
>supposed to check whether the WAN port of that router is up or not. For
>doing that right now I'm pinging (ping -c 3 myrouter) to that machine
>and verifying (I've written one perl script which pings the link and
Ping uses icmp protocol. The ping test may not be 100% proof.
You can check your router by connecting to available ports on router like
telnet, http finger which works on tcp/ip protocol. There are other udp
ports also like snmp on router.
Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web Site - www.betacomp.com
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