Subject: Re: Detection of an internet connection
From: Derrik Pates (dpates@andromeda.dsdk12.net)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2001 - 07:39:04 MST
On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Frank STENGEL wrote:
> Is there an easy way, apart from trying a url and see if one connects,
> to know from MOL wether the linux side is connected to the net.
> Furthermore, is it possible to activate a connection (ppp or other)
> from MOL. That is : is there a way, from MOL to tell Linux to
> (de)activate a connection ?
Try the masqdialer server. Check out http://w3.cpwright.com/mserver/.
There're apparently a native MacOS client and some Java-based clients for
it, so you could use one of those.
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