On Tuesday 15 November 2005 08:42, antonio giulio wrote:
Hi,
how can I see my ip modem (it's a router too, and I connect to it via
dhcp)?
with "ip route show" I can see just local address 192.168.1.1, but I
wanna know real address on internet.
Thanks,
Giulio
Assuming the router is working and connecting to the internet, but you can't
see anything on the configuration page {you have tried training a web
browser on its "internal" IP address, haven't you?}, do a traceroute to
somewhere like www.debian.org or bbc.co.uk. Use the -n option to show IP
addresses in numeric form, rather than hostnames:
# traceroute -n www.bbc.co.uk
If you are lucky, the first hop will be your router's own external IP address.
If you are unlucky, the first hop will be an "unroutable" 10.x.y.z address --
this means your ISP is connecting you through a secondary router {mine does
that}. In which case, get someone whose IP address you *do* know to put this
in their cgi-bin:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $ip_address = $ENV{"REMOTE_ADDR"};
print qq|Content-type: text/plain
Your IP address is $ip_address.
|;
exit 0;
Then visit it with a web browser.
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