Check for an active Internet connection

I have seen many different ways to check if the computer has an active internet connection. The best one, IMO, is to check for the presence of the default route in the IP forwarding table that is maintained by windows. This can be checked by using GetIPForwardTable function found in the iphlpapi.dll library. The default route is present if one of the entries in the table has a forwarding destination of 0.0.0.0.

Here is some C code that uses this:

#include <iphlpapi.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "iphlpapi")

bool IsInternetAvailable()
{
    bool bIsInternetAvailable = false;
    // Get the required buffer size
    DWORD dwBufferSize = 0;
    if (ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER == GetIpForwardTable(NULL, &dwBufferSize, false))
    {
        BYTE *pByte = new BYTE[dwBufferSize];
        if (pByte)
        {
            PMIB_IPFORWARDTABLE pRoutingTable = reinterpret_cast<PMIB_IPFORWARDTABLE>(pByte);
            // Attempt to fill buffer with routing table information
            if (NO_ERROR == GetIpForwardTable(pRoutingTable, &dwBufferSize, false))
            {
                DWORD dwRowCount = pRoutingTable->dwNumEntries; // Get row count
                // Look for default route to gateway
                for (DWORD dwIndex = 0; dwIndex < dwRowCount; ++dwIndex)
                {
                    if (pRoutingTable->table[dwIndex].dwForwardDest == 0)
                    { // Default route designated by 0.0.0.0 in table
                        bIsInternetAvailable = true; // Found it
                        break; // Short circuit loop
                    }
                }
            }
            delete[] pByte; // Clean up. Just say "No" to memory leaks
        }
    }
    return bIsInternetAvailable;
}

I originally got this code from the CP forums, but I have not been able to get back to the original post: http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=1367563&forumid=1647#xx1367563xx[^], I keep getting a "Page not Found" error so I am posting this tip so I can refer people here.