Re: PATCH: internetgetconnectionstate

[Berend Ozceri]

Marcus Meissner wrote:

> I spent some thought, and detecting how the computer is connected is not
> trivial under Linux. You would need to parse either ifconfig -a output or
> /proc/net/dev under Linux, then check for packets transmitted, interface
> up/down status etc. This would be an ifdef and stringparsing hell.

How about looking at the output of the route command (or /proc/net/route) and
seeing if there is a default route present?

Berend