At 4:20 AM -0700 8/23/06, Vizion wrote: >My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router >model RT31P2 to an upstream Cable company supplied Motorola >SB5100 cable modem. > >A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to >which my private network is attached. The IP address is rarely >changed. > >I need to monitor and record that IP address and initiate a >series of processes if/when the IP address changes. > >Suggestions please... and thanks in advance for any replies
David, You could schedule a script that uses 'curl' or 'fetch' to acquire the status page from the router and parse the upstream IP address from it and compare it with a saved address. -- Walter M. Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wump Research & Company 676 River Bend Road, Roseburg, OR 97470 541-672-8975 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"