[ale] gateway external ip

[F. Grant Robertson]

> I would like to get my router's external ip address
> and email it to my cell phone.

This works well for me. I didn't write it, it came from some firewall script
I once used.

However, might I suggest that it would be easier to use a dynamic dns
service, so you could have a name? I use whyi.org, but I think dyndns.org is
still around.

-G

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internet=ppp0

[ -z "$ip" ] && EXTERNALIP=`ip addr show $internet | grep inet | sed s/"
"// | cut -d' ' -f 2 |
 cut -d'/' -f1`

echo $ip


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