[YLUG] Finding the external IP of a linksys router

Stephen steve at patter.mine.nu
Mon May 22 19:22:24 BST 2006


On 22 May 06, Craig Genner (craig at gennerfam.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> curr_ip=`wget -q -O- http://www.whatismyip.com/ | grep "Your IP is " - | cut 
> -d" " -f4`

Thats neater than my first thought (at least the html is) - load the router's
status webpage which has its external IP & grep through that.

I'll post the actual script when I've got something figured out.

hmmm, looks like gpg's gone snafu :(
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