How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

Bill Campbell freebsd at celestial.com
Wed Sep 3 15:03:14 PDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
...
>> 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?

Better be.  sshclient.celestial.com is the T1 interface on our router (a
Linux box with a Sangoma card).  The login ``shell'' for the sshclient user
is a C program that simply gets the SSH_CLIENT environment variable, and
spits it out STDOUT.

Bill
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