[SOLVED] VPN script

druisgod · 06-26-2013, 08:37 AM

Hi!

I'm planning on running sabnzbd over vpn and I want to write a script to stop sab if I lose VPN and to start it again once VPN has been reestablished.

The issue I'm having is how to get a script to pull in my outside ip. Thoughts?

TB0ne · 06-26-2013, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druisgod

Hi!
I'm planning on running sabnzbd over vpn and I want to write a script to stop sab if I lose VPN and to start it again once VPN has been reestablished.

The issue I'm having is how to get a script to pull in my outside ip. Thoughts?

Run ifconfig on your interface, and pull it into a variable.

druisgod · 06-26-2013, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Run ifconfig on your interface, and pull it into a variable.

I nat, so that would only get me the internal ip. I found it with google. Thanks though!

#!/bin/bash
wget http://checkip.dyndns.com/ 2>1 /dev/null
cat index.html | awk '{print $6}'|cut -d"<" -f1

szboardstretcher · 06-26-2013, 09:42 AM

A much simpler approach is this:

Code:

wget -qO- http://icanhazip.com