Careful, BTW; most of these will cause some version or another of windows to automaticly connect or ask the user, if so configured. Parsing the output of ipconfig may be the best option... though it's trickier then it looks. For example, on this machine, if the only available conenction has the address 192.168.0.1, then there is no connection. On the one just to it's side, if the only connection has the address 192.168.0.2, there there /might/ be a connection to the outside world.

We are using here a powerful strategy of synthesis: wishful thinking. -- The Wizard Book

In reply to Re: Network or no network???... That is the question! by theorbtwo
in thread Network or no network???... That is the question! by akm2

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