InetCheck v1.2.1

What's new?

• Added file metadata (description, author, license)

Other changes

• Improved comments
• Added examples to README.md
• Fixed typo in print statement

InetCheck v1.2.0

InetCheck v1.2.0

What's new?

• added program arguments --version (-v) and --quiet (-q)

Other Improvements

• bug fix

InetCheck v1.1.0

InetCheck v1.1.0

What's new?

• added possibility to specify host, port and timeout
  • see parameters --host, --port and --timeout
• added possibility to specify the delay between connection checks
  • see parameter --interval
• added possibility to export a log-file
  • see parameter --log_file
• added possibility to execute a command when system (dis-)connected
  • see parameters --cmd_connected and --cmd_disconnected
• added possibility to let the system beep when it (dis-)connected
  • see parameters --beeps_connected and --beeps_disconnected

Other improvements

• making script compatible for library use
• script now prints statistics and exits when it detects SIGINT (e.g. Ctrl-C)
• bug fixes

First Version

InetCheck v1.0.0

This is the first release of InetCheck. It contains the main functionality to check for internet connection.

InetCheck will monitor when your system can establish a connection with example.com. It will show you the time(s), when the connection status changed and tell you how long your computer was online / offline.

Usage

To use this script, just start it via python3 InetCheck.py. No need to install.

Dependencies

This script only uses the following two basic python modules:

• time
• socket