begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:15:57AM -0700: > Cox (rhymes with "Cox") has been spontaneously switching my home IP > address recently. It locks me out to ssh. > [snip] > I suspect the " Access without authorization denied" step means that the > router embedded program's asking for admin/passwd (and I do get asked > for this within lynx) is not somehow getting properly authenticated to > the router. Some java thing?
Javascript, I suspect. The asante router widget feeds up a very pretty web-page, but it requires javascript to do _anything_. This seems to be a common approach. And applet would be easier to deal with, I suspect. > Q1: Is there some setting for lynx that will make this bad thing not > happen? You can compile in javascript support to links. That might help. > Q2: Is there an alternative way of "pinging" the router to get the WAN > address, preferably with a CLI program? Ping an outside machine, and that machine will have the IP address. I once wrote a stupid little script to do a remote ssh login to a colocated machine, and it sucked the IP address from the connection and sent me email if it had changed. If you have an outside resource to connect to, it's simple. If not, the DyDNS stuff seems to provide you one. Personally, I didn't bother with Cox (more than just this one issue), and went with DSL and static IPs. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
