DHCP question

[Walt Pawley]

At 5:03 PM -0400 8/24/06, Robert Huff wrote:

>>  >I need to monitor and record that IP address and initiate a
>>  >series of processes if/when the IP address changes.
>>
>>  You could schedule a script that uses 'curl' or 'fetch' to
>>  acquire the status page from the router and parse the upstream
>>  IP address from it and compare it with a saved address.
>
>	How about:
>
>	netstat -rn -f inet | grep default | awk '{print $2}'

Wouldn't that just get his router's internal NAT address?
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