At 19:37 -0500 8/23/2001, Timothy A. Canon wrote:
>Thanks for the tip. From the command line this works for me:
>
>/usr/sbin/ipconfig getifaddr en1
I don't agree here - this showed me an old ip address.
I used en0 instead to show my dynamic address assigned by dhcp...
Please advise.
Bohdan
>
>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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