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RE: Computer connected to the internet?

From:
Morbus Iff
Date:
January 4, 2002 05:44
Subject:
RE: Computer connected to the internet?
Message ID:
p05101002b85b60dae1ab@[63.173.138.129]
>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.

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