ping or reboot

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im a admin at a open learning center and we are in desperate need for a program that pings a server and if the netcable are disconnected it had to reboot.

my problem is that if i do a _RunDOS($ping xxx.xx.xx.xx) can i get a return value, if it cant ping it ?

or is there a smarter method?

i was thinking about something like this

sleep(50000) ;gives the user 50 sec to start up

while(1)

_runDOS($ping xxx.xxx.xx.xx)

if RETURNVALUEHERE = 1 then

shutdown(5)

else

sleep(10000)

WEnd

is it possible?

thx in advance

[creeping]

I guess the smarter method would be to use the ping function found in the help file

$var = Ping("www.AutoItScript.com",250)
If $var Then; also possible:  If @error = 0 Then ...
    Msgbox(0,"Status","Online, roundtrip was:" & $var)
Else
    Msgbox(0,"Status","An error occured with number: " & @error)
EndIf

Edited October 12, 2006 by creeping

[WikiView]

I guess the smarter method would be to use the ping function found in the help file

$var = Ping("www.AutoItScript.com",250)
If $var Then; also possible:  If @error = 0 Then ...
    Msgbox(0,"Status","Online, roundtrip was:" & $var)
Else
    Msgbox(0,"Status","An error occured with number: " & @error)
EndIf

doh my bad, thx mate

[sulfurious]

You could also make a batch file like this, where -n is the # of packets to ping with, and -t is the # of seconds till reboot.

ping 192.168.1.1 -n 1 | find "TTL">nul
if errorlevel 1 shutdown -r -t 10

Sul