From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 15:11:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56CF37C243 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:11:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01828; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:12:24 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id PAA25377; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:12:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:12:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Kai Peters Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Access to outbound if's IP address? In-Reply-To: <004201bfa0d8$5b4e4720$6400a8c0@teamsoftech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG winipcfg from the start->run menu will give you the gateway Windows is trying to go through... is that what you're looking for? It also gives the IP address currently assigned to it. Rick > We have installed about 10 FreeBSD gateways for some of our clients > so far (dialup/Cable/DSL). For maintenance purposes it would be nice > to have telnet access to these boxes when required. > > Ideally we'd like to phone a contact on site and ask them for their > gateway's current > IP address so we can telnet to it. However, we'd prefer that contact to be > able > to run a Win32 app of some sort that would tell them the IP address, rather > than talking them > thru the login at the BSD box and then having them do an 'ifconfig'. > > Sitting on a Win32 net behind a FreeBSD gateway, how can I know > the gateway's outbound if IP address without lifting my butt out of my > chair and doing an 'ifconfig ' on the gateway (or telnetting to it)? > > Any help/pointers greatly appreciated, > > Thanks, > Kai > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message