Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-30 Thread Peter
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lior Kesos wrote: The thing about linux/FOSS is that (as the perl moto says) There like a gazillion ways to do anything. In this case it was to update my ip at noip2 and I went to alot of redundent work and have like 4 different ways of doing that including a python agent

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-30 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:07:41AM +0200, Lior Kesos wrote: I put the noip binary on a web server on my host and then ran wget from the router while I was on /var that seems to be writeable. Just note that /var is tmpfs, recreated at reboot. -- Didi

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Lior Kesos
Well the cross compile went suprisely smooth. I downloaded the uclibc cross compiler and had no problems whatsoever. I then placed the noip binary on the /var (which is writable) and was very proud to be able to runit off my router with the dilema if to actually integrate it into the router's

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi Lior, Installing noip service on the router is not wise. You don't have much persistent storage there, and not many tools (perl as i recall is not avail. there). I have this router, and I tried (unsuccessfully) to enable SNMP on it to achieve this data. Instead, I wrote a small script in perl

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Lior Kesos
A simpler solution to that (after writing a similiar script) is running - html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep Current | cut -d : -f2 When you access one of the checkmyip sites it get's the router's external ip and that way no sshing is needed. Lior. On 6/29/05, Noam Meltzer [EMAIL

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread shimi
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:31 +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: A simpler solution to that (after writing a similiar script) is running - html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep Current | cut -d : -f2 When you access one of the checkmyip sites it get's the router's external ip and that way no sshing

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Noam Meltzer
The problem with both methods is they are being a little slow. I used the latter and i got many false-negatives (can't obtain IP errors). So i prefered to keep the IP checking inside my network. NoamOn 6/29/05, shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:31 +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: A

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:26:37 +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: [snip] But my question is do I have to install the noip software on the router or is there a more standard and elegent way. You can use one of the several sites that return your IP as they see it (after NAT or proxy). Among them are:

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Peter
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Lior Kesos wrote: Well the cross compile went suprisely smooth. I downloaded the uclibc cross compiler and had no problems whatsoever. I then placed the noip binary on the /var (which is writable) and was very proud to be able to runit off my router with the dilema if to

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Peter
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Lior Kesos wrote: A simpler solution to that (after writing a similiar script) is running - html2text http://checkip.dyndns.org | grep Current | cut -d : -f2 When you access one of the checkmyip sites it get's the router's external ip and that way no sshing is needed.

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 10:37:11PM +0300, Peter wrote: What tool did you use to place the compiled binary in the router. Mine is locked, I cannot upload into it through ssh or anything else. I can write a shell script to tunnel base64 data if needed ;-). It is also modified somehow. The

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Peter
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Lior Kesos wrote: I put the noip binary on a web server on my host and then ran wget from the router while I was on /var that seems to be writeable. Hmm, I missed wget ;-) Does your router have dproxy running, and if so, does it work (you should be able to point your

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-29 Thread Lior Kesos
The thing about linux/FOSS is that (as the perl moto says) There like a gazillion ways to do anything. In this case it was to update my ip at noip2 and I went to alot of redundent work and have like 4 different ways of doing that including a python agent I started writing. So I didn't even find

Re: noip service on a b-focus 312

2005-06-28 Thread Peter
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Lior Kesos wrote: Ello, I'm trying to set up my router (eci b-focus 312) to update the noip service of it's ip. I've used cable pptp till now so I always had my external ip an ifconfig away. But my question is do I have to install the noip software on the router or is