Am 15.12.2010 um 02:07 schrieb Dan Shoop:

> 
> On Dec 14, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Nat! wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 14.12.2010 um 22:28 schrieb Dan Shoop:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I think it's fairly clever to use snmpwalk, with the result piped through
>>>> 
>>>> egrep -v 
>>>> '^127\.0\.0.|^169\.254\.|^172\.3[0-1]\.|^172\.2[0-9]\.|^172\.1[6-9]\.|^192\.168\.|^224\.|^2[45][0-9]\.|^10\.'
>>>>  
>>> 
>>> All you're doing is filtering out what may not be the WAN IP and it doesn't 
>>> account for duplicates returned if the router has any additional VLANs that 
>>> operate or VPNs. That could lead to additional false positives.
>> 
>> True, though aren't these also usually of the 172.31.xxx.xx variety ? At 
>> least, in my experience they are.
> 
> Not at all. They could be RFC1918 addresses or public, depends in the network 
> and CIDR blocks involved.

Yes, but then, academically speaking, it isn't guaranteed, that whatismyip.com 
is picking up the correct address of the router either (think web proxy) :)

Ciao
   Nat!
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