ssh

Pedroski · 11-17-2005, 05:24 PM

If I use ssh to access my home computer from say, here in Spain, as far as I have read I need to know my ip number. At home we have a dial up connection, so the number is assigned randomly from our ISP. Does this mean I´d have to get them to go online, then ask them to get the ip address with a command I can´t remember now, then I might be able to log in to our computer?

titopoquito · 11-17-2005, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pedroski
then ask them to get the ip address with a command I can´t remember now

There are surely easier methods but one is:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
wget http://checkip.dyndns.org 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
MYIP=`cat index.html | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\< -f1`
rm index.html
echo "My WAN address is: $MYIP"
exit 0

Sorry, don't remember where I got this. Quite sure someone here on LQ.org wrote this.