IP monitoring software

WrightExposure · 12-21-2007, 08:32 AM

Hello all,

Second post of the day looking for some software.

On my windows XP box I run a software application called ipmonitor from barefoot productions (http://www.barefootinc.com/ipmonitor.htm). It monitors my external IP address and alerts me should it change, I don't have a static IP address at home.

Does a similar product for linux exist. Running FC6 gnome interface.

Mark

Pearlseattle · 12-21-2007, 01:59 PM

Perhaps the easiest thing would be to write a small shell script which queries on a regular basis your external IP from your router? (perhaps using wget if it is displayed on a web page?
Or something like "no-ip"?
You could alternatively download your ip from here.
Well, didn't find any 200% free and indipendent utility to just be installed in Linux (well with the Gentoo distribution I have a package ready for "no-ip"). That's why I wrote my own script which gets it from my router.

Tinkster · 12-21-2007, 02:03 PM

Run in loop and compare with previous result ;}

Code:

lynx -dump http://whatismyip.com/|egrep -o "[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+"

Cheers,
Tink

Pearlseattle · 12-21-2007, 02:45 PM

Tinkster, I think this is the most brillant solution to a problem I ever read or heard since I was born.

Pearlseattle · 12-21-2007, 02:52 PM

WrightExposure, a small remark: after running the command I ended up having in the directory an empty file called "*". Remember to delete it with

Code:

rm "*"

and not

Code:

rm *