Re: IP Address with DHCP

[Timothy A. Canon]

I guess I should have mentioned that I am using a Lucent Wavelan card in my PowerBook on an Airport network :) That is why it is en1 instead of en0 which would be your normal ethernet port. Regards, Tim on 08/23/2001 7:46 PM, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 19:37 -0500 8/23/2001, Timothy A. Canon wrote: >> Thanks for the tip. From the command line this works for me: >> >> /usr/sbin/ipconfig getifaddr en1 > > > I don't agree here - this showed me an old ip address. > > I used en0 instead to show my dynamic address assigned by dhcp... > > Please advise. > > > Bohdan > > > >> >> Now I just need to put it in a perl script. A quick look on CPAN turned up >> Sys::HostIP which was basically doing the same thing. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tim >> >> On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 04:50 PM, Craig S. Cottingham wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 04:36 , Justin Simoni wrote: >>> >>>> What I do (I use @home) which uses DHCP. That fills in the IP addy for me, >>>> and then I switch the network configuration to 'Manual' - I use the IP >>>> addy that I got from the DHCP server and just lock it in! >>>> >>>> That way, you'll always have the same IP address and if you need to, you >>>> can just hardcode that addy in any scripts you have! >>>> >>>> sneaky sneaky. >>> >>> Until your DHCP lease runs out and your IP address becomes invalid (or >>> worse, is handed out to another user), at which point it becomes "foolish >>> foolish". >>> >>> A quick-and-dirty solution, compiled in Mail: >>> >>> my $iface = 'en0'; # change to ppp0? if dialup? >>> my $ip = undef; >>> (`/sbin/ifconfig $iface` =~ /inet\s+(\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})/) and ($ip = >>> $1); >>> >>> -- >>> Craig S. Cottingham >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> PGP key available from: >>> >>> ID=0xA2FFBE41, fingerprint=6AA8 2E28 2404 8A95 B8FC 7EFC 136F 0CEF A2FF BE41 >