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Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?



Brendan wrote:
On Thursday 05 May 2005 07:33 pm, Sean Davis wrote:

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 07:17:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet add' | awk '{print $2}' |cut -d ' '  -f
12 | cut -d: -f 2"

or, more simply, /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | awk -F: '/inet/ {print $2}'|sed
s/'[[:space:]].*'// but.. that won't tell you the WAN address if you're on
a machine behind a NAT router. just your LAN address.


I *am* the NAT router. ;-)


And the person who posted the question isn't!

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