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:
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[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
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[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
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Seems to work too ...
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