[ale] gateway external ip

[David S. Jackson]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 06:56:29PM -0400 matty91 at bellsouth.net <matty91 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Robert Coggins wrote:
> 
> > Hey all!
> >
> > I am using DSL w/ Bellsouth.  I would like to get my router's external
> > ip address and email it to my cell phone.  I am going to try and write a
> > script to do this.  However,  I am not sure how or what program I am
> > going to use to get the ip.  Any ideas?  I thought about parsing my
> > traceroute output.  However it didn't seem to work.
> 
> Since the IP blocks are well known, the following should work:
> 
> /sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | grep 65 | awk '{print $2}'

What if his router is a linksys or something?  From a client PC,
wouldn't this just give his internal gateway IP? (or nothing,
unless he's using a 65 in his internal network...)

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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