How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?
Bill Campbell
freebsd at celestial.com
Wed Sep 3 14:09:03 PDT 2003
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and don't
>have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD box
>in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports are
>there that would provide the public IP address from the command line so
>I pass the IP to a script? Any ideas?
We have set up a server to return this since I got tired of
poking around to find it. This will return the IP address.
ssh -l sshclient sshclient.celestial.com
Bill
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