WAN-IP of router

Jorge Almeida jjalmeida at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 05:29:22 PDT 2010


>
>>   http://whatismyipaddress.com
>>

I found this by googling and I'm using it. I needed the router's WAN
IP address in order to open the computer at work to the home network,
which I did. I just want an automated way to do it, and using an
external site isn't appealing, anyway. The proper way seems to be to
have a sshd server on the router and then use ifconfig or such. The
problem is that installing dd-wrt is not for the faint of heart, at
least not until I have the computers perfectly configured. The factory
software doesn't seem something I would recommend to anyone, and it
certainly doesn't include a sshd server (unless it's hidden
somewhere--the thing comes with no documentation worth mentioning).
The crappy web interface doesn't show the IP.

Thanks, everyone.

Jorge




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