Use snmp and add a trap

Daniel Hill <[email protected]> wrote:

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>> * Setup a script that polls the first router for
>>    its' reported wan_ip address....
><snip />
>
>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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