On Mon 28 May 2018 at 07:54:49 (-0400), Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : > >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier <an...@rodier.me> wrote: > >>> > >>> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the > >>> external IP address of the machine. > >> > >> Assuming you are looking for the public internet address of your router, > >> you could try: > >> /usr/sbin/arp -n > >> and it may show up on a line with the HWadress of your router. > > > > Nope. That would just show the internal address of the router. > > > > > You are mostly correct. However, I have one machine on which the > response to > /usr/sbin/arp -n > shows two lines with the HWaddress of the router, one with the internal > address as you said and the other with the external address. I have no > idea what made arp see the external address.
Can we see what you're seeing (suitably mangled)? Cheers, David.
