On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 14:40 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > If I want to know if I have an internet connection I look for a > default > route in the output of "netstat -an", thus: > > netstat -rn | egrep '\''^(default|0\.0\.0\.0) +[1-9]'\'' >/dev/null netstat -an ... poc