[YLUG] Finding the external IP of a linksys router

[Martin Rowe]

On 22/05/06, Craig Genner <craig at gennerfam.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> The following in a script:
>
> curr_ip=`wget -q -O- http://www.whatismyip.com/ | grep "Your IP is " - | cut
> -d" " -f4`
>
> or
>
> curr_ip=`wget -q -O- http://www.gene6.com/ip.php`

That's useful to know, as I'm in the same boat as Stephen with a
couple of dyndns account but only a slot for one in my wireless router
(KCorp KLG-575). Unfortunately the second url isn't much use for ntl
users, as it returns the address of the transparent proxy ntl provide.
Quite a few web sites I've visited do they same, though dyndns.org &
whatismyip.com seem to have no trouble getting through that to the
correct one.

Regards, Martin
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