How to get external IP of the router?

I_like_TUX · 06-18-2008, 11:15 AM

Hi! My friend and me is working on the same project and he needs to logon to my machine to work together on the same set of files. However, I have a dynamic IP, I would like to know how can I get the external IP of the router from the command line (I want to write a shell script) so that I can automatically send that IP to him periodically? Thanks.

forrestt · 06-18-2008, 11:19 AM

Try this link:

http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp

HTH

Forrest

Pearlseattle · 06-18-2008, 11:20 AM

Here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ghlight=router

forrestt · 06-18-2008, 11:32 AM

The people hosting whatismyip.com don't want automated tools hitting their front page. They have therefore set up the link above.

An alternate way from what is listed in the script in the thread posted by Pearlseattle is (note, you can replace "wget -q -O" with "lynx -dump". I just don't have links installed on the box I'm currently on):

Code:

#!/bin/sh

MYIP=`wget -q -O - http://whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp`
echo $MYIP

HTH

Forrest