Small module written to replicate the ping functionality in C# code
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| public bool Ping (string host, int attempts, int timeout) | |
| { | |
| System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping ping = | |
| new System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping (); | |
| System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingReply pingReply; | |
| for (int i = 0; i < attempts; i++) | |
| { | |
| try | |
| { | |
| pingReply = ping.Send (host, timeout); | |
| // If there is a successful ping then return true. | |
| if (pingReply != null && | |
| pingReply.Status == System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPStatus.Success) | |
| return true; | |
| } | |
| catch | |
| { | |
| // Do nothing and let it try again until the attempts are exausted. | |
| // Exceptions are thrown for normal ping failurs like address lookup | |
| // failed. For this reason we are supressing errors. | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // Return false if we can't successfully ping the server after several attempts. | |
| return false; | |
| } |
