Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:50:50 +0100 From: Jon-Eirik Pettersen <lists@jonepet.net> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic Router IP. Message-ID: <4017E86A.3030807@jonepet.net> In-Reply-To: <4017E4D9.8020407@circlesquared.com> References: <006001c3e5b8$bf84a3f0$0200a8c0@pc103767> <4017E4D9.8020407@circlesquared.com>
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Peter Risdon wrote: > Mike wrote: > >>> that it's his dsl router that gets the dynamic ip address, not the >>> freebsd box. Presumably, the router has a static 192.168.1.x address >>> facing the LAN and the freebsd box uses this as its gateway. I doubt >>> >> >> you >> >> >>> can install a daemon on the router. >>> >>> >> >> The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about >> installing the daemon on the router :) >> >> Mike >> >> > It does? How? The daemon will be running on the Freebsd machine, which > does not have the external ip address. I use dynamic dns services here > and there but so far as I know they all require a daemon running on > the machine which actually has the relevant dynamic address. > > This is drifting slightly off-topic, but I'm interested to know. > > PWR. > > _______________________________________________ It's possible to configure most of them to get the IP-address from a web-page.
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