Detect connection lost with network device and stop application

Question

I would like to create a batch app which is pinging constantly my network device. Once Result changes into not found it should stop a certain application or my internet explorer.

How do I start with this?

I know i can ping my device with ping 192.168.0.1 -t constantly but how to stop the application with the result ?

Thanks in advance,

Regards, J

Answer 1

I have answered this one previously with a nice little batch file.

The modification you need to make the above answer work would be:

:a
ping -n 1 www.google.com | findstr TTL && goto a
taskkill /IM <Your Task Name>

This will loop until the connection fails, then end script. You can add another goto a and make it loop again

• ping checks the connection between you and the location provided
• -n 1 number of times to check (1)
• | pipes the result to the next command
• findstr TTL Find String, finds a string (TTL - Time to live) in the output

Live ping: Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=54

Dead ping: Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Destination host unreachable.

• && Continue with command if previous command completed. Same as doing IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1
• goto a a simple jump to a label (:a) in the script