On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:31 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 13Feb2013 01:06, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote: | 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 ...
That prints all the existing connections and sockets. -rn prints the routing table.
I was merely pointing out that your two references to netstat use different options.
poc