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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:03:13 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd@celestial.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?
Message-ID:  <20030903220313.GA60926@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <01d701c37265$72e4da90$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
References:  <019101c37248$ffd50c30$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20030903210901.GA59060@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <01d701c37265$72e4da90$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
...
>> We have set up a server to return this since I got tired of
>> poking around to find it.  This will return the IP address.
>>
>> ssh -l sshclient sshclient.celestial.com
>
>Thanks.  I will either go this route or use a suggestion by another get
>the html status page from the router and extract.  Is your server
>normally up?

Better be.  sshclient.celestial.com is the T1 interface on our router (a
Linux box with a Sangoma card).  The login ``shell'' for the sshclient user
is a C program that simply gets the SSH_CLIENT environment variable, and
spits it out STDOUT.

Bill
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