Tom H wrote: > Emailing yourself the (truncated to the first lines) output of a > "traceroute -n google.com" on your box should be enough to give you > the modem's external IP address. It will be the first external address > (and the first address if you do not have a router between it and your > box). Thanks. That seems to be the simplest method suggested so far: ---------------------------------------- [tim@althea ~]$ traceroute -n google.com traceroute to google.com (74.125.45.100), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 1.049 ms 1.279 ms 1.566 ms 2 192.168.100.1 27.415 ms 30.226 ms 32.609 ms 3 88.45.2.33 36.093 ms 38.530 ms 41.458 ms ---------------------------------------- [tim@rose ~]$ ping -c2 88.45.2.33 PING 88.45.2.33 (88.45.2.33) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 88.45.2.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=102 ms ---------------------------------------- Seems to work too ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
