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Re: Dynamic IP Address



On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:17:01PM +0100, Michael Boyd wrote:
> 1. I obtain a dynamic IP address from my ISP.  How can I include this in
> my ruleset?  I have experimented with...
> 
> $dynipadd="`/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print$2}' |
> sed -e 's/.*://'`"
> which I found on a website
> ... from the command line.  The last part gave me some trouble.

Maybe...

LOCALIP=ppp0
LOCALIP=`ifconfig $LOCALIF |grep inet |cut -d : -f 2 |cut -d \  -f 1`

Have a nice day ;-)
TooManySecrets



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