Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:45:31 -0700 From: Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DHCP question Message-ID: <a05210248c114146c8a28@[10.0.0.10]> In-Reply-To: <17646.5176.759355.437455@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20060823112010.FWCA15709.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao0 3> <a05210245c113be4a597c@[10.0.0.10]> <17646.5176.759355.437455@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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At 5:03 PM -0400 8/24/06, Robert Huff wrote:
>> >I need to monitor and record that IP address and initiate a
>> >series of processes if/when the IP address changes.
>>
>> You could schedule a script that uses 'curl' or 'fetch' to
>> acquire the status page from the router and parse the upstream
>> IP address from it and compare it with a saved address.
>
> How about:
>
> netstat -rn -f inet | grep default | awk '{print $2}'
Wouldn't that just get his router's internal NAT address?
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