RE: Monitor for dialup connection before issuing FTP commands

Richard:
On our web site, there is some code you can download (free) that will
tell you if the dial up PPP connection is established and retrieve the
IP address.  The code was written by Art Tostaine, Jr. a frequent
contributor to the list.
Regards,
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Richard B Baird
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:41 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Monitor for dialup connection before issuing FTP commands



Hey all,

I'm looking for recommendations on how to programatically wait
for/monitor for/ensure that a PPP dialup connection has completed, and
all the handshaking is done, so that I may start an ftp connection with
the remote machine.

in preliminary testing, it can take as long as 30-60 seconds for this to
complete.  If I start the FTP client session too soon after I issue the
STRTCPP2P command, the connection locks up and never completes.  only if
I wait until the device job gets the dialup connection complete message,
will the ftp make the connection.

any ideas?

thanks,

rick

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