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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:40:50 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to tell if connected to internet?
Message-ID:  <199809192240.SAA06906@federation.addy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809192141.WAA09387@woof.lan.awfulhak.org>

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On 19-Sep-98 Brian Somers wrote:
>> What command can I use to tell if I am connected to the internet?
>> I found "show ipcp" in ppp, but I am looking for something that would
>> either return 0/1 or that I could call on shell script and parse the
>> status.
> 
> There's an example in pppctl(8).

Tried the following from the example:
pppctl -p '' -v /var/run/internet quit


I get the error
Can not connect to socket /var/run/internet

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