Re: Am I Connected (Cont)
Re: Am I Connected (Cont)
- Subject: Re: Am I Connected (Cont)
- From: Mike Cohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:34:02 -0500
If you're using a PPP connection won't that cause it to dial?
How about a way to find out if you're connected WITHOUT dialing? I know how
to do it in 9 using MoreNetworkSetup, but how about under X?
On 2/11/02 2:17 PM, "John Cebasek" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi Quinn:
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Talking to the other folks in how they would do this, it seems one
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approach would be to send an ECHO command/packet/whatever to a known address
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and if the round trip time is > 0, then we're online and connected to the
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'net.
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I thought that there would be a simpler way to do this, and came up
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with:
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> static Boolean ConnectedToInternet(void)
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> {
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> InetSvcRef internetServices = kOTInvalidProviderRef;
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> OSStatus osErr = noErr;
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> Boolean bResult = false;
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> internetServices = OTOpenInternetServices(kDefaultInternetServices,
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> 0,
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&osErr);
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if (osErr == noErr)
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{
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> bResult = true; // Yippee! We're connected!
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> OTCloseProvider(internetServices);
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> }
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> return bResult;
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> }
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> My idea was that if OTOpenInternetServices worked, then the user
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> configuration was correct, and we can get to 'the wall'. I wasn't really
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> sure about needing a target to try and reach...
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> Except for the fact that OTOpenInternetServices isn't in carbon. Which
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> now
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> has me looking thru tn1173.
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> Also, if tn1145 is for OS 9, and those System Config calls are for X, does
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> it mean that there isn't a solution that covers both OSes? We're a
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> powerplant app and I've got carbonized GUSI in there now which seems to be
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> doing quite a bit of the work we need in regards to getting data down from
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> the server in my test harnesses.
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Well, that's my flaky logic... such that it is...
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Best Regards
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John Cebasek
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email@hidden
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