John Aldrich wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm...ever think of tracerouting to your ISP's router and getting
> > > YOUR address? :-)
> >
> > traceroute doesn't do that for me on any machine I've got  :)
> >
> > My DSL modem doesn't even alter the TTL, so it doesn't show up in the
> > traceroute.
> >
> Hmm...you know...that *could* be a problem...maybe there's
> an interface on the DSL modem (telnet or web???) that'll
> show that info. I know my Netgear ISDN router will tell me
> that info if I go to the right menu option when telnetted
> in.

my cayman dsl modem has this same feature, which is accessible through a
browser.  i wrote a short perl job to fetch the page, pull the ip addy,
compare it to the previous ip addy, and email me if and when it changes.
i guess it all depends on the type of modem you're using.
--
steve




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