Finding the external IP on a DSL router?

[Michael Scully]

Allen:

	Assuming the router is something provided from the phone company,
you could do one of 2 things.  If it's recent enough, it may have the
ability to login to a Dynamic DNS server and update itself, so that some
name you give it could always resolve.  If that's not possible, turn NAT off
that DSL router and purchase one to put between it.  Almost all of them do
this now.

	From the inside, you can check sites like www.whatismyip.com to see
what your current public IP number is.  There are also free clients you can
install on Linux that will do the same sort of things as the router client,
and keep a dynamic DNS service up to date.

Scully


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Allen Wayne Best
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:59 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Finding the external IP on a DSL router?

Hello:

Does anyone know of a way to find the ip address on the external side of a 
router?

I am have set up a Linux server for a client, where the server is
192.168.0.2 
and the dsl router is 192.168.0.1. I have set up everything to do a ssh in 
and out of the server via the router. The difficulty is the router will 
change ip address on the external side (or internet seen side!) any time it 
is power cycled. I would like to email myself the new ip when it changes.

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regards,
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