WAN-IP of router

[Brad De Vries]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any sensible, script-friendly, way of finding my router's
> external (dynamical) IP? It looks surprisingly difficult, judging by
> Google results...
> The thing is an ASUS RT-N16. I intend to install dd-wrt, eventually,
> but for the time being it has the original software, which appears to
> be complete crap, BTW.
>
> Jorge Almeida

Jorge, you can also take a look at how other scripts query routers.

I use a Perl script called ddclient (http://ddclient.sourceforge.net.)
 I'm not sure if your router is listed as being "supported" by
ddclient, but even if it's not, it might be helpful to see how it
works.

Brad.