IP Address Forwarding

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Is there any way of setting up a PC to say email it's current WAN IP
address? I have PC's on some Verizon networks that are not static. BTW, they
are behind a router.

sorry if posted in the wrong form
 
A quick install of the Creekstone IPAdvisor
(http://www.creekstone.net/software/ipadvisor) program will do that.

It will e-mail you a notification when the IP address changes (renews or
looses its lease) as well as give you a web page link to a history of your
different IP addresses, including the current address. I use it because my
cable modem ISP provides a dynamic dhcp assigned ip address and I want
remote access to telnet, ftp, and web services on my home Linux server from
work. I don't use it for a full blown webserver since I'm just hosting a
few peprsonal HTML docs but I suppose you could even host a full blown
website provided your ISP doesn't monitor for heavy http traffic from the
Internet.

As far as the router is concerned I think it will work from behind almost
any router, firewall, etc. A friend of mine uses it for his Bellsouth PPP
DSL connection from behind a Linux router/firewall configured with NAT.

Hope that helps.
 
Thanks guys!! I ended up going with dyndns.org (thx jeff)

Could not get the creekstone to recognize my NIC but looks like it would
have done what i wanted.

Again thanks for the responses!!
 
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