My use case is to force a tunnel to a particular subnet to be activated within 
a data center at the remote end of a VPN connection into that data center.

We have been using a manual approach using 2 minutes worth of Pings to force 
the remote tunnel creation, and I wanted to automate that within my app. But 
subsequently I discovered that I could just retry a TCP socket connection every 
5 seconds for 2 minutes and that would force the tunnel creation just like the 
manual Pings did.

So I found a simple workaround that doesn’t need to Ping.

Cheers,
Joe



> On Apr 10, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Christian Schmitz 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> So does anyone know of a good way to do a Ping on OSX and Windows? I’d even 
>> settle for a way to read and write IP Datagrams and code up the Ping myself. 
>> Ideas?
> 
> why do you need ping?
> 
> Normally you can only test if you have internet if you actually try to do a 
> connection.
> 
> DNS may not be available. Ping may be blocked. A Proxy may be required.
> And still we can load via CURL through proxy.
> 
> Sincerely
> Christian
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