external ip, using dsl

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rusty0412

Hello,

I am annoyd by having to go to sites like
www.whatismyip.com because the status of my connection
only gives me the internal IP, I want the external IP and
I use DSL. Any ideas? Man, I am so close making Linux my
default OS because the features you really need in a OS,
lack in Windows, is not only the lack of features that
annoy me is the big security holes discovered in their OS
and yet to be found...
 
Check your router, it will tell you your external IP.
Without any information on how your network is
configured, it is impossible to give you an answer.
 
rusty0412 said:
Hello,

I am annoyd by having to go to sites like
www.whatismyip.com because the status of my connection
only gives me the internal IP, I want the external IP and
I use DSL. Any ideas? Man, I am so close making Linux my
default OS because the features you really need in a OS,
lack in Windows, is not only the lack of features that
annoy me is the big security holes discovered in their OS
and yet to be found...
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Since you say Internal IP, I presume you are using a NAT router?

In which case, this is nothing to do with your OS.
Linux would report the same internal IP.

The only way to get your External IP is to either:
Query an external site like you are doing, or
Query the router either on a web-based status page or SNMP if the router
supports it.

Incidentally, more features = >more bugs and attack x-section ( in any
code ).
 
I use a DLink DI-614+ rev.B1, which is a 4 port switch and
has a WAP built in. It connects to my DSL modem. The
router doesn't knows which is the external IP, because it
has an internal IP. The difference between linux and
windows is that you can ask someone from Mandrake, Red Hat
to add that feature or develop it yourself using the
freely available source code.
 
Check again and look closely.

It is somewhere inside the Advance [or the furthest tab] in the router.
The IP is written on top of the connect / disconnect button.

=bob=
 
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