Hello there! Can someone help me about pinging an ip address? im using MySQL as my backend but everytime the server is down, the MySQL ODBC connection settings always pop up. If i could just ping the ip address on the first place i could control the errors occuring. Or maybe to add additional control in the connection string to block the pop-up window.

and one more thing... how can i check if the server is still active? Ex: I am connected to the server and suddenly the connetion broke.

Thank you...