And while you're scraping that, you can ping the default gateway that
the "modem" gives you and as long as you can get there then you're
connected.
I do that to keep an eye on what Rogers does in the neighbourhood. I
ping the external address of my firewall, the default gateway, the dns
servers listed then google.ca and rogers.com.
CPE001b211b9dbf-CMf0f2495bbda0.cpe.net.cable..
ok 99.224.22.24
ok 99.224.0.1
ok 64.71.255.204
ok 64.71.255.198
ok www.google.ca
ok www.rogers.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alvin Starr
via
> talk
> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2018 7:49 PM
> To: William Park via talk
> Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Getting external IP
>
> I am not all that familiar with the cable modems but you should be
able
> to scrape the ip address from the modem.
>
> They will be using DHCP or possibly ppoe but one way or another your
> modem will have your address.
>
>
>
> On 01/27/2018 05:10 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> > Cable, which is owned by Rogers.
>
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