On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I dial to connect to my ISP and (obviously!) get a random ip#. I get it
> now by /sbin/ifconfig -a and reading the lines there. 'hostname' gives me
> the name I have given my machine. Is there any other program that I can
> run that will give me this info?
Have a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down
They should be documented somewhere. They are scripts that are run on
opening and closing the link. ip-up has the ip address as one of its
arguments, so you could save/mail/whatever it from here.
Frank
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
>
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