On 20 September 2015 at 15:21, Peter Renzland <renzl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Request for help: > Using (Tomato) Linux (Router) as Web Proxy Server. > > I remotely manage several Tomato networks. > > I would like to connect to the ISP's Usage Data web page, from the remote > network, to check the remote network's data usage. > > I'd also like to run the ISP-specific (web browser) speed test from the > remote network, to check the remote network's data rates. > > These seem like very ordinary, simple things to want to do. > I'd like to find someone who has actually done these things, and who can help > me do them. > (I have found dozens of "how-to" web pages that don't work for me. But I have > not found anyone who has said > > "I do this all the time, and here is how I do it". Instead, I have found many > people who have said "I have never done this, and I won't try to do it myself > it, but you should try this ....") > > Being able to do a web search on "my IP" and get the remote (proxy) host's IP > address is really all need. > > So, if there is someone who actually has done this, please help! > Thank you very much. > > [Mac OS X, Google-Chrome, Tomato Shibby 131 AIO]
Many years ago (so this almost falls into the category of "I haven't done this but you should try it" - sorry ... but it did work then) I had a pretty good system for finding my home IP. I did it from the home computer, not the router: you should have router access, which should make it easier. My home computer would check the IP address assigned to the router every five minutes on a cron job, and if it found the IP was different from last time, it would update the IP on a web page and post it to my public web server. That section of the website was password-protected (although not encrypted, something I would definitely do now). I hope this is useful, sorry it's so vague. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ giles...@gmail.com --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
