----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?
> > 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. This seems like the best way. Would you be willing to share your script that grabs the status page and extracts the IP? I'm not very good with regular expressions yet and would appreciate the kick start. Thanks, Drew _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
