>How about pinging several hosts that have a pretty good chance of being up. >www.microsoft.com, www.netscape.com, www.ibm.com, etc, etc. You could also >ping your local gateway address. If all fail (except for the router as the >link may be down beyond that, but if the ping to the router fails, then you >are definetly without connection) then you could assume you've lost >connection. If a user has "connect automatically" or "dial automatically", will this pinging cause the computer to dial? I'm thinking of this in a dialup Win/Mac environment. -- Morbus Iff ( i assault your sensibilities! ) http://www.disobey.com/ && http://www.gamegrene.com/ read me: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/07/apache.html icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus