[plug] Determining ip address

[Cameron Patrick]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:59:56PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <3FDFEF43.7000608 at wasp.net.au>
| on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:53:07AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
| > I'm behind a Lucent Cellpipe 20A pppoa gateway up here, I need an easy, 
| > scriptable way to determine my external ip address
| 
| For Linux, Cameron parses the output of `ip addr show dev <if>` or
| `ifconfig` or `netstat -ei` style commands (shown an earlier thread
| from the last two days).

I don't, my computer does :-)  But that wouldn't work in this case, as
it sounds as though the external interface is on the Lucent, not the
Linux box.

Cameron.