Determining far IP address of NAT/ROUTER

Daniel McNamara daniel at codefish.net.au
Wed Dec 18 09:53:48 EST 2002


I can assure you the ddclient does work. Been using it for 18 months so
far at my place and it hasn't failed once. It has multiple ways of
obtaining the routers "real" ip address.

Cheers

Daniel

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Martin Schwenke wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "Mikal" == Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> writes:
>>
>>     Mikal> How about doing a traceroute, and parsing the output?
>>
>> That shows you the address on your side of each router...  :-(
>
> And I would think ddclient wont help, because it knows the IP address of
> the external interface of the linux box, not of the ADSL router thingie.
>
> Mikal
>
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>
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