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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!bigtex!texsun!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!west.West.Sun.COM!devnull!mfitz
  2. From: mfitz@devnull.West.Sun.COM (Mark Fitzpatrick - Systems Engineer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
  4. Subject: ?: Checking Media via C
  5. Message-ID: <l97ufmINNgm4@west.west.sun.com>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 20:00:54 GMT
  7. Reply-To: mfitz@devnull.West.Sun.COM
  8. Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  9. Lines: 6
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: devnull.west.sun.com
  11.  
  12. Does anyone have a simple C routine that checks if your
  13. media (ethernet) is functioning.  i.e. sends an TCP
  14. packet out onto the wire and then reads it?
  15.  
  16. Thanks,
  17. Mark
  18.