Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:39:37 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@compar.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router? Message-ID: <001401c3724a$ba4dc0b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <019101c37248$ffd50c30$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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> I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and don't > have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD box > in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports are > there that would provide the public IP address from the command line so > I pass the IP to a script? Any ideas? The way I do it with my router (BEFW11S4 V2) is to use lynx to download the HTML status page from the router and extract the public IP address. I do this in a cron job every 15 minutes, and when it notices an IP change, it fires off my dynamic DNS updates. -- Matt Emmerton
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