Re: [PLUG] finding the IP

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

I don't think I can offer an intelligent solution to this problem but I 
would love to see the script. Any chance you could post it for us?

eric@lucii.org wrote:

> I've got a script (perl, natch) that emails me from a linux server when
> it's IP address changes.  It uses cron to check hourly and compares
> against a file with the last IP.
>
> It determines the IP by parsing the output of "ifconfig eth1".
>
> Sadly, this does not work on a Verizon DSL line --- must be because of
> the use of PPPOE?  /sbin/route does not work either... the IP is simply
> not there.
>
> Anyone know how to reliably determine the IP address of a box that's
> using PPPOE?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Eric

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