Can I mail you a test program which will tell you if you're connected to the internet or not? that's all it does, no funny business.

you need to be running through a proxy and/or a firewall, btw.

cheers

You can send it me if you like :) mail me as per my profile

Paul

on it's way

You can mail it to me too.

Any funny business and I'll send the boys round ;)

Stefan

to me too - I'll kill your pets if it does bad things..

It says not connected to the network for me - behind firewall but no proxy

yeah, written another one. Stefan's testing it for me.

if you want :D

bewarned i can break anything easily :D

I never received it :confused:

Paul

paul I did send it, but outlook was kind enough to block the exe! :rolleyes:

this is what I was doing:
http://www.btinternet.com/~madtoye/AmIConnected2.exe

works out if you are connected to the net and if you are, how (modem/lan)

Lan -> Firewall -> Private WAN -> Firewall -> Internet

Identified as "LAN"

Deano

PC > s/w Firewall > LAN > h/w Router > Internet
...registers as "LAN".

pc > hardware firewall = LAN

SonicWALL....LAN

cheers chaps.

did anyone try stopping the network connection and then running the test app?

It still recognises the LAN even if the cable's unplugged.

is it red or green tho'?

LAN > Bridge > LAN > Switch > Router > Proxy > IDS > Firewall > WAN = LAN on green.

It shows LAN/green when the ethernet lead is unplugged as well as when it's connected.

bit more code then. :rolleyes:

I'm using home LAN (private IP), though also with VPN running (public IP), through a ZoneAlarm Pro firewall and it says....

"Modem"

Shades

Shows Green "LAN" even if I pull the LAN cable, I assume because the NIC is still live.

However, shows Red ".//." if I disable the "Local Area Connection".

Still shows Red ".//." if I restart the "Local Area Connection" and stays red no matter how many times I click "Connection" button. However, as I soon as I use the LAN in any way, clicking the "Connection" button brings it back to Green "LAN".

Cheers

Ian

Works through Firewall NG also. Detects the LAN correctly