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Subject: Re: Dynamic Router IP.
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Peter Risdon wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
>>> that it's his dsl router that gets the dynamic ip address, not the
>>> freebsd box. Presumably, the router has a static 192.168.1.x address
>>> facing the LAN and the freebsd box uses this as its gateway. I doubt
>>>   
>>
>> you
>>  
>>
>>> can install a daemon on the router.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> The deamon has ways to find out its external ip, so don't worry about
>> installing the daemon on the router :)
>>
>> Mike
>>  
>>
> It does? How? The daemon will be running on the Freebsd machine, which 
> does not have the external ip address. I use dynamic dns services here 
> and there but so far as I know they all require a daemon running on 
> the machine which actually has the relevant dynamic address.
>
> This is drifting slightly off-topic, but I'm interested to know.
>
> PWR.
>
> _______________________________________________

It's possible to configure most of them to get the IP-address from a 
web-page.