How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

[Drew Tomlinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Campbell" <freebsd at celestial.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?


> 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

Thanks.  I will either go this route or use a suggestion by another get
the html status page from the router and extract.  Is your server
normally up?

Drew