Re: [PLUG] finding the IP

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

I bounce my router's IP off of my remote Web server.

http://www.dpagin.net/IP.php

http://www.dpagin.net/IP.phps


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?
>
>  


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