From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 17:19:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B5E16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:19:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF21E43D3F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:19:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-208-232.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.208.232]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0AHJ0wW054824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:19:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41E2B8F2.3040600@mac.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:18:42 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBsdBeni References: <200501091438.59814.freebsdbeni@spymac.com> <200501090656.09705.james@idea-anvil.net> <200501091505.33003.freebsdbeni@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200501091505.33003.freebsdbeni@spymac.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.5 tests=AWL,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip address behind router ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:19:18 -0000 FreeBsdBeni wrote: [ ... ] > I can indeed access the Linksys modem directly and find out the address. But I > was hoping for a more direct or easier way to do it, if possible... Because you are using a device which performs NAT, you have to query that device to find out the real IP; there is no way on a machine within the private NAT'ed subnet to get external information without asking externally. However, if you connect your machine directly to the aDSL modem rather than using a firewall/router, you could run ifconfig on your machine and see the real IP. You'd probably have to configure pppoe which can be a pain, and your typical Linksys broadband router already does a good job of handling that. -- -Chuck