Thanks for the tip. From the command line this works for me:
/usr/sbin/ipconfig getifaddr en1
Now I just need to put it in a perl script. A quick look on CPAN
turned up Sys::HostIP which was basically doing the same thing.
Thanks,
Tim
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 04:50 PM, Craig S. Cottingham wrote:
> On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 04:36 , Justin Simoni wrote:
>
>> What I do (I use @home) which uses DHCP. That fills in the IP
>> addy for me, and then I switch the network configuration to
>> 'Manual' - I use the IP addy that I got from the DHCP server
>> and just lock it in!
>>
>> That way, you'll always have the same IP address and if you need
>> to, you can just hardcode that addy in any scripts you have!
>>
>> sneaky sneaky.
>
> Until your DHCP lease runs out and your IP address becomes
> invalid (or worse, is handed out to another user), at which point
> it becomes "foolish foolish".
>
> A quick-and-dirty solution, compiled in Mail:
>
> my $iface = 'en0'; # change to ppp0? if dialup?
> my $ip = undef;
> (`/sbin/ifconfig $iface` =~
> /inet\s+(\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})/) and ($ip = $1);
>
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