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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:45:55 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Michael Mercer <mmercer@nortelnetworks.com>, mmercer@ipass.net
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Subject: Re: How to find out my IP address.
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Michael Mercer wrote:

> I use USER PPP with the -ddial option. Is there a quick and easy way
> to find out the dynamic IP ADDRESS that was assigned to me, without me
> connecting with pppctl??

Something like,

$ ifconfig tun0 | awk 'NR == 2 { print $2 }'

should work.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk


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