[ale] gateway external ip

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Robert Coggins wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> I am using DSL w/ Bellsouth.  I would like to get my router's external
> ip address and email it to my cell phone.  I am going to try and write a
> script to do this.  However,  I am not sure how or what program I am
> going to use to get the ip.  Any ideas?  I thought about parsing my
> traceroute output.  However it didn't seem to work.

Since the IP blocks are well known, the following should work:

/sbin/ifconfig | grep inet | grep 65 | awk '{print $2}'

>
> Thanks all!
>
> Rob
>
>
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