From f08a9b032caf23e9e40a5a8efd52eea2140aaaeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:25:28 +0100
Subject: Added check_ping function

---
 etc/functions/check_ping | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 etc/functions/check_ping

diff --git a/etc/functions/check_ping b/etc/functions/check_ping
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..80ea8ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/functions/check_ping
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+## vim:ft=zsh
+## check_ping -return true if a host responds to ICMP echo requests
+typeset -i ipv6 ret
+
+while [[ $1 == -* ]] {
+	case $1 in
+		-6) ipv6=1 ;;
+	esac
+	shift
+}
+
+typeset dst=$1
+shift
+
+if ((ipv6)) {
+	ping6 -c 1 $dst &> /dev/null
+} else {
+	ping -c 1 $dst &> /dev/null
+}
+return
-- 
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