I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to some
well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that ping is
not working if target address is not within the same network. I
actually started writing small application, which can tell the
internet status of the given system by using some standard network
Apis. It would be great if some one suggest me how to proceed for
this.
Thanx in advance,
Ravindra. Bhadramraju
5  2457 
Ravindra.B wrote:
I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to some
well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that ping is
not working if target address is not within the same network. I
actually started writing small application, which can tell the
internet status of the given system by using some standard network
Apis. It would be great if some one suggest me how to proceed for
this.
Try on a group for your system since any methods to do this will be
specific for your implementation and/or system. For ideas under Unix
type systems see comp.unix.progr ammer and see
comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32 for Windows machines. There is no
generic way to do this, nor in purely Standard C.
"Ravindra.B " <ra************ ******@gmail.co mwrote:
I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to some
well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that ping is
not working if target address is not within the same network.
No, the problem is that there is no reliable way to do what you want.
And no, I don't mean "no way using ISO C only"; I mean no reliable way
at all. For example, have you thought about what you'd do if your
firewall let you connect to most sites, but (for some, possibly
temporary reason) not to the one you intend to abuse for this purpose?
Richard
On 5 Aug 2008 at 12:46, Ravindra.B wrote:
I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to some
well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that ping is
not working if target address is not within the same network. I
actually started writing small application, which can tell the
internet status of the given system by using some standard network
Apis. It would be great if some one suggest me how to proceed for
this.
I'm not completely sure what it is you want to do. It may just be a DNS
problem - otherwise you could try a traceroute and see how far your
packet gets before being dropped.
As for doing this in C, I can't think of a standard ping library - you
could download a ping program from the web and include the code in your
program, or just write it yourself using basic networking: you need to
send an ICMP echo request packet, and then receive (hopefully...) the
echo back.
If you need more information, describe the problem clearly!
On Aug 6, 3:10*am, Antoninus Twink <nos...@nospam. invalidwrote:
On *5 Aug 2008 at 12:46, Ravindra.B wrote:
I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to some
well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that ping is
not working if target address is not within the same network. I
actually started writing small application, which can tell the
internet status of the given system by using some standard network
Apis. It would be great if some one suggest me how to proceed for
this.
I'm not completely sure what it is you want to do. It may just be a DNS
problem - otherwise you could try a traceroute and see how far your
packet gets before being dropped.
As for doing this in C, I can't think of a standard ping library - you
could download a ping program from the web and include the code in your
program, or just write it yourself using basic networking: you need to
send an ICMP echo request packet, and then receive (hopefully...) the
echo back.
If you need more information, describe the problem clearly!
Well, the requirement is something like this...a small api/function
which could tell if the internet connection is available or not and in
either case it should send a userfriendly message to the application.
To put it in a simple way, if the client application wants to check
every time the internet status of a given system before connecting to
the remote server how can it be achived by using standard Unix-network
Apis
Ravindra.B wrote:
On Aug 6, 3:10*am, Antoninus Twink <nos...@nospam. invalidwrote:
>On *5 Aug 2008 at 12:46, Ravindra.B wrote:
I tried checking internet status of my system by issuing ping to
some well known server like google.com. But, the problem is that
ping is not working if target address is not within the same
network. I actually started writing small application, which can
tell the internet status of the given system by using some standard
network Apis. It would be great if some one suggest me how to
proceed for this.
I'm not completely sure what it is you want to do. It may just be a
DNS problem - otherwise you could try a traceroute and see how far
your packet gets before being dropped.
As for doing this in C, I can't think of a standard ping library -
you could download a ping program from the web and include the code
in your program, or just write it yourself using basic networking:
you need to send an ICMP echo request packet, and then receive
(hopefully.. .) the echo back.
If you need more information, describe the problem clearly!
Well, the requirement is something like this...a small api/function
which could tell if the internet connection is available or not and in
either case it should send a userfriendly message to the application.
To put it in a simple way, if the client application wants to check
every time the internet status of a given system before connecting to
the remote server how can it be achived by using standard Unix-network
Apis
Please note that networking is not defined in any manner by the C
Standard and you will need to use system specific extensions to attempt
what you want. For that a group dealing with your system is a much
better place than here. If you program uses the POSIX APIs ask in
comp.unix.progr ammer, if it uses the Windows API ask in
comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32 or another suitable group.
<OT>
The usual method is try to connect and handle failure. This is a bit
like trying to read a byte and getting end-of-file or error in C.
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