FreeBsdBeni wrote: [ ... ]
I can indeed access the Linksys modem directly and find out the address. But I was hoping for a more direct or easier way to do it, if possible...
Because you are using a device which performs NAT, you have to query that device to find out the real IP; there is no way on a machine within the private NAT'ed subnet to get external information without asking externally.
However, if you connect your machine directly to the aDSL modem rather than using a firewall/router, you could run ifconfig on your machine and see the real IP. You'd probably have to configure pppoe which can be a pain, and your typical Linksys broadband router already does a good job of handling that.
-- -Chuck
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