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> * Setup a script that polls the first router for
>    its' reported wan_ip address....
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I've been wondering how to do this, I was looking at the nc (why is
this built without listen support?) and netmsg commands, but couldn't
find a built in app that would listen on the other side

DHCP would work but I don't know how to get it to lease the WAN ip address

anyway polling is suboptimal, having to poll the ar7 ever 10mins would
be OK but give down time of up to 10mins when my ISP changes my IP
address, on the other hand I could poll the router every 1s and have
it almost real time, but that seems like a waste of processing power,
finding a balance would be hard

if we have to keep a server open on one of the routers anyway for the
polling, why not reverse it so the power-router has a server, and the
ar7 broadcasts the IP address to it
so it's a sort of pub/sub or push system

so this brings me back to the listening server problem, or am I over
thinking this?

(telnetd was the only thing I could think might work but not sure
about telnetd protocol vs nc protocol)
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