Yep, that's the golden rule in networking. The only way that you know
that a bi-directional path is open is an end-to-end ping. Even then, you
only know that it's open at the time the ping completed.
If you are using TCP then you can always enable keepalive packets that
effectively do the same thing while the TCP connection is open. The
IPsec Internet Key Exchange Protocol also has the same capability for
Dead Peer Detection (DPD) which works between the two end points of a
VPN tunnel.
On 18/06/2021 13:34, James Richters via fpc-pascal wrote:
Do a Ping to an address on the network to see if it's connected?
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I would like to know how I can check if a remote network is available, i.e. if
the VPN system has succeeded to connect the remote network.
I need this in a class that connects an OpenVPN tunnel on demand and takes it
down after use. Unfortunately openvpn-gui does not have an API call to do
this...
It provides an API for connect, disconnect, reconnect etc but not for returning
the state of a connection for example.
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui#send-commands-to-a-running-instance-of-openvpn-gui
Any suggestions for Windows?
I just want to know if a call to connect succeeded.
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