From: Farrel Lifson <flifson@...>
Date: 2003-10-13T01:18:20+09:00
Subject: Re: detecting if I am connected to a ISP


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I wrote a Ruby script that connected to my ISP a while ago. To test if I
was connected I would run ifconfig and then parse the first line
returned and look for 'ppp' (the name of the connection). This is a bit
hackish and I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do it.

Farrel
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