Re: [PLUG] finding the IP

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> All of these things assume that the ip you see is what the rest of the
> world sees. My ip as I write this is 192.168.0.6. You will see the
> address of my gateway, puddle.purple.com = 216.158.45.183.
>
> I believe the only reliable way to know your ip from the outside,
> barring knowledge of the network between you and there, is to check
> from the outside. Thus the httpd solutions.
>  

I made an attempt to use SNMP to grab the IP from my wireless router.  
No success.  Bouncing the IP off a Web server works pretty well.  The 
drawback is that it sends e-mail every time because it doesn't know if 
the IP has changed or not.

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