in reply to Detecting dial-up connections

Sure. You can execute the command 'ipconfig' and parse the output with the script. Another more kludgy way is if you do NOT have dial-on-demand set, you can ping a known address periodically and check the result.

But allow me to ask an exploratory question: Are you trying to determine if the link is down before you go off to a site, or are you attempting something else? Because it's Windows, there might be a better way to do it. If you can clarify what you're trying to do, we might be able to come with a more 'creative' solution.
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RE: Re: Detecting dial-up connections
by Odud (Pilgrim) on Jun 10, 2000 at 00:02 UTC
    I'm trying to determine if the link is up and running before I try and retrieve something. The idea is that the script spends most of its time asleep and wakes up every x minutes. If it can see a connection it goes and gets something (actually some weather data from a local airport) otherwise it sleeps again.
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      have you tried somthing like 
      $minuits_to_wait = '5';
$last = my $last2 = 0;

while (1) {
    if ((time - $last) > 60 * $minuits_to_wait ) {
        $ret = sometypeof-ping-routine();
        if ($ret eq '1') {
            get_somthing();
        } elsif ($ret eq '0') {
            print "Not connected\n";
        }
    }
    
    sleep(60 * $minuits_to_wait);
}

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