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attreus · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 2:32 am Post subject: online-status

good morning,

first i wanna say, be sure i've been searching this forum around for possible answers to this request.
i've got a 3-computers-home-network. each one of this can connect to the internet directly via a-dsl by its own. if one of the three computers already is connected, this one is the proxyserver for the other ones. so then any others will be clients if they boot up and connect.
actually i'm working on a vdsscript that will be runnig on each of that comps to determine the online-status of it. the script has to find out if the machine it's running on is connected to the web directly or via an other computer.

i tried the vdsonline. dll, but it's only usefull for the server.

now my question: is there a way (maybe usin' the registry ?) to determine how, not if, a computer is connected to the web?

best regards

attreus

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi there,

Might want to look at this thread Wink

http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245

Have a good day....

attreus · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 1:12 pm Post subject:

thanks marty,

but i already read this thread. it didn't help me.
what i'm looking for is how a program, e.g. i-explorer, finds out if the comp it's running on, is self connected or via network.

attreus

Hortalonus · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject:

You might be able to tell by checking the gateway setting of the machine. If it's connected through another node on the LAN, the gateway should be the computer on the LAN that is connected directly via ADSL.
If this is so, you could check if the gateway setting is any of the three IP addresses of your local machines.

attreus · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 7:19 pm Post subject:

hi hortalnus,

that sounds good but where do i find the right gateway-settings in registry?

attreus

Hortalonus · Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 8:50 pm Post subject:

I have WinXP Pro and I can find mine under the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\{F192F94C-55DF-46C9-B96A-B0D2826E9208}\Parameters\Tcpip

The {F192F94C-55DF-46C9-B96A-B0D2826E9208} value is my network adapter ID. I'm not sure about other versions of Windows. I just did a search for the IP of my gateway in the registry.

attreus · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 1:56 am Post subject:

that key doesn't exist on my computer(w2k). if i search for the ip of one of the two other computers, it is only to find in the proxy-settings, but they don't change.

thanx anyway hortalonus