On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 13:40:29 -0500 (CDT), Jim Streit <jimstreit at northlans.com> wrote: > Sure can, I have a couple of perl scripts and cron jobs. System checkes > every 5 minutes, if the ip address of eth0 is different the the one > stored > in a text file it will e-mail me the new address, and update the text > file. > > But I don't get a new ip address on my Linux eth0 - it's static on my LAN (192.168.0.XXX), the gateway (D-link) gets a new WAN ip address like every 3 - 12 hours (lately)... Road Runner must be moving Netblocks or something... I'd need to query the gateway (switch, firewall,D-link do-hicky - whatever- it's-called)for it's WAN ip > >> On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:51:40 -0500, Peter Clark <peter-clark at bethel.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 04 September 2003 12:52 pm, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: >>>> Access to this web page is restricted. >>>> Reason: >>>> The category "Proxy Avoidance" is filtered. >>> Are you at work? Try again at home. Or set up a ssh connection to >>> your >>> home computer and browse that way. >> >> Yeah at work... I used to ssh home, but lately my IP address has been >> changing so frequently that I can't keep up... >> >> Wonder if I can have my linux box find out my gateway's WAN IP and email >> me if it changes... hummmm.... >> >>> :Peter >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list