Date: 02 Dec 2003 17:30:01 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting DHCP-assigned IP address Message-ID: <444qwi4zva.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FCD0C92.7080508@code-fu.com> References: <3FCD0C92.7080508@code-fu.com>
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"Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> writes:
> Is there an easy way to get the IP address that DHCP has assigned to
> an interface?
>
> I know I can do it the hard way -- parsing the results of ifconfig
> with regular expressions -- but I suspect there's a much easier way.
For most purposes, the easy way is to use the dhclient hooks scripts;
that way, you don't need to poll the values, either.
"man 8 dhclient-script" for details, but my /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks
script is:
if [ x$old_ip_address != x$new_ip_address ]; then
/usr/local/bin/noip
fi
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