Check network WITHOUT use internet

[ATARI_LIVE]

I know one of code is works great as:

try:
    import httplib
except:
    import http.client as httplib

def checkInternetHttplib(url="www.google.com", timeout=3):
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url, timeout=timeout)
    try:
        conn.request("HEAD", "/")
        conn.close()
        return True
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
        return False

That is use the internet...
But I would like to use local like 192.168.1.1 WITHOUT the internet, how can I code this? url="192.168.1.1" ?

[Larz60+]

try replacing "www.google.com" with local ip address