On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 10:49 AM, drieux wrote:
>
> On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 10:35 , bob ackerman wrote:
>
>> my box is behind a D-Link router 704.
>> The router gets its ip from my isp using dhcp.
>> anyone know how to get that external ip from the router?
>
> I presume that your 'internal network' is an RFC1918 configuration?
> All of whom are routing to the LAN side address of your Router???
sounds right.
> { are expecting your ISP to actually be handing you a 'real'
> IP address that it is not itself NATing for you???? }
yes. it gives a real ip to the router. one that other's on the net can use
to access my box.
>> is any module designed to find your external ip when you are on a lan?
>
> a part of the problem is getting a good definition of what 'external'
> would mean here...
again, i mean the real ip my isp gives to the router.
>
>> router is admined from a web page, so i guess it is possible to using
>> LWP (or some other module?) to retrieve the info from the web page.
>
> I would recommend that you go at this from the webPage side on your LAN.
> Since that would probably be simpler and easier to develop and maintain.
other response suggested using LWP.
> since if they have exposed their API it's reasonably simple - if they
> have not, it would be reasonably simple to play around that with your
> browser in one place, and your perl code in another window....
perhaps the api is available. i have downloaded a python script
(ipcheck.py from source forge) that seems able to grovel the ip. i will
look into the script way and the LWP way and report back.
> ciao
> drieux
adieu, drieux (now that's felicitous)
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