Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:03:52 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DHCP question Message-ID: <17646.5176.759355.437455@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <a05210245c113be4a597c@[10.0.0.10]> References: <20060823112010.FWCA15709.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao0 3> <a05210245c113be4a597c@[10.0.0.10]>
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Walt Pawley writes:
> >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}'
Robert Huff
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