Re: connection status

[Daniel Knapp]

>  Is there a Unix utility which checks if a connection is up, and returns
> an easy to interpret answer(like 1 or 0, preferably...)? If so, which one
> (yes, I know, most of you will think of 'ping'...)?

On my linux-machine I type 'ifconfig' and if 'ppp0' is displayed I know
that I am connected.

-Dan


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