QSocket - signal for network wire disconnection

**manivannan_1984** · 2nd September 2006, 06:53

HI All,

I developing a Instant Messaging System in QT3.3.4. I am using QSocket claases.

When the network wire has been disconnected or network connection is down.... I want to trigger a signal to all the online users..... Using socker I am not able to get any signal when the network wire disconnected....

Can anybody help me to fix this .....

Thanks..

Regards,
Mani

**jacek** · 2nd September 2006, 10:53

There is no way to find out whether the network is down, except for trying to send something.

**ball** · 2nd September 2006, 16:03

You can send heart beat socket signal periodically, to check if any side is disconnected.

**wysota** · 3rd September 2006, 01:01

Originally Posted by ball

You can send heart beat socket signal periodically, to check if any side is disconnected.

But it won't tell you the cause of connection failure. Someone might have pulled the plug somewhere along the route. The abstraction of "connect state" (in regard to Transport Control Protocol) doesn't allow any notification whatsoever. The "connection" is purely virtual.

The only possibility I see to obtain information about a network interface being turned off is to use a platform specific API for querying the operating system about it. Of course it would only work on the host that dropped the interface and not on its peer.

**ball** · 3rd September 2006, 06:42

There are many ways to simulate a socket that not reporting the disconnection, but actually it is disconnected. Only logically (programmatically) using heart beat is reliable.

**wysota** · 3rd September 2006, 08:40

Originally Posted by ball

There are many ways to simulate a socket that not reporting the disconnection, but actually it is disconnected. Only logically (programmatically) using heart beat is reliable.

I think Jacek already said that