[ale] gateway external ip

[John Wells]

Could you not traceroute to a known host (say slashdot.org) and pick up
the first ip address not your internal network?  In other words, run a
cron job every five minutes that runs the traceroute, compares the results
to the old ip (saved in a file somewhere), and then mails you if they turn
out differently...

Hell, for that matter, if you want it now, just have your machine email
you a traceroute every 10 minutes.

John

Doug McNash said:
>
> I have been wanting to do the same thing, get my router's
> dhcp address and send a message to my phone when it
> changes.
>
> The external interface ain't gonna show up in a traceroute
> and no event is registered.  The only was I see to do it
> at the moment is to fetch the status screen thru http and
> parse it out of that output.
>
>
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