[oclug] How to verify my IP address remotely

[Brian McKee]

I don't believe that will work as he has a router...  his eth0 will not 
be his internet address.
Brian

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:25  AM, Jon Earle wrote:

> I did that for my home box.  I whacked together a script that ran after
> ppp completed its connection.  It ran 'ifconfig ppp0', grepped for the 
> IP
> and mailed that to another account (you could use anything that has a
> stable (IP-wise) webmail address (hotmail for example).
>
> Something like this works fine:
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 |
> 	grep "inet addr" |
> 	cut -d : -f 2 |
> 	awk '{print $1}' |
> 	mail -s "My IP" <email address to send to>
>
> There's probably a better way to do it (fewer commands) but this works 
> in
> a pinch.
>
> Cheers!
> Jon
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, David G. wrote:
>
>> When I am away for a few days, I want to know what the current IP
>> address of my router is, so I can ssh into one of the computers.
>
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