On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:05:28PM -0400, Douglas Ward wrote:
> > ifconfig | grep -1 ppp0 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*r://' | sed 's/ .*$//'
> > Replace ppp0 with your active interface.
> And,
> ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F : '{print $2}'I believe he was looking for his external IP, not his local DHCP IP. ifconfig will not tell you your external IP. For that, you need to do something (mildly) more sophisticated, like requesting a web page on a remote site that will tell you the IP which made the request. Here's a tiny script that will do it: #!/bin/bash wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ 2>/dev/null -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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