Re: grep for ip address on boot

[Ray Olszewski]

I don't know how promptly your application requires you to sync with ppp0 IP address changes, but there is an off-the-shelf alternative to what you are proposing. When pppd runs, it will execute the script /etc/ppp/ip-up, and that script has access to the local IP address as an environment variable (IPLOCAL). This gets used, for example, as a way to update a firewall (ipchains or iptables) when the interface address changes (as it will from time to time with PPPoE over ADSL, which I assume is what you have). It might do what you want a bit more easily than the approach you are trying for.

At 02:11 PM 11/19/02 -0500, Bryan Simmons wrote:

I have an adsl connection that uses a dynamic IP from my ISP.  I use the
adsl-status script to find out what my IP is at any time.
What I want to do is parse the response I get from adsl-status to
isolate my IP.  Here is the output of the adsl-status script:

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