[ale] Stupid IP question

[PairOfTwins]

Wow --- so many responses! 

For remote support, I'm wanting the IP that comcast shows the world from 
her house.

I'd tried traceroute from my machine, and it DID NOT give me my public 
IP, only an Earthlink IP that's similar.

Brian -- the "wget" command DOES match my Earthlink-assigned public IP 
--- very good!

Thanks,
Tom
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List wrote:
> Yeah, actually traceroute does.  Just tried it on several machines.  
> It nicely give me the network facing interface as the first hop after 
> my router.
>
>
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> And nor will traceroute.
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2008 2:16 PM, List <lst at wiencko.net> wrote:
>>  
>>> ifconfig will give you the local IP address (facing the unix box).  I
>>> think he's looking for the IP address on the network side of the modem,
>>> which ipconfig will not see.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jeff Lightner wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Why not just run ifconfig?
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of 
>>>> List
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:44 PM
>>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Stupid IP question
>>>>
>>>> traceroute will get you there if the user can get to a root shell.
>>>>
>>>> PairOfTwins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> Anyone:
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I find the dynamic IP of a comcast user, so I can do remote
>>>>> support?  Firefox, which I'd normally use, is not loading.   This is
>>>>> Ubuntu, so there's no Konq to fall back on.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Tom
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