-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-03-18 at 22:17 +0100, houghi wrote:
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:03:54PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So in my case it can be a small power glitch that forced my router to reset and retrain, or something on my ISP side.
Contact your provider and ask them if they are able to tell what is happening or why they give a new IP or at least when they give out a new IP.
Depending on the quality of the helpdesk, this might need to be answerd by somebody not on thephone (2nd or even 3rd level)
That's nearly impossible here, those people seem to be paid to bounce questions! I know, I worked for them, on another branch. And anyway, it doesn't matter that much to me.
If I can discover a way to log the IP number the router gets, then I could investigate. I can ssh to my router and learn the IP, but it is not easy to automatize.
It depends on your router. If you can get it with something else then SSH (e.g. via a website) then it should be very easy.
There is a command on the router (it runs linux 2.4.17) that tells the IP: [warning: long lines] ] -> wan show ] VCC Con. Catego. Service Interface Proto. IGMP Nat QoS State Status DialMod IP ] ID Name Name address ] 0.8.32 1 UBR pppoe_8_32 ppp_8_32_1 PPPoE Disable Enable Enable Enable Up Direct 88.*.*.* ] 0.8.36 1 UBRwPCR pppoe_8_36_1 ppp_8_36_1 PPPoE Disable Enable Enable Enable PPP Down Direct If I wanted, I would just have to write a script sshing to the router and issuing the "wan show" command. Perhaps there is another way after I read the manual someday. For example, I might get some info with snmp, if I learn how it works: cer@nimrodel:~> snmpget -v 1 -c public router system.sysDescr.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Broadcom Bcm963xx Software Version 2.20L.01 But I have no idea what command strings it has, nor how to learn them :-( [...] Perhaps this: snmpwalk -v 2c -c public router it gives 251 parameters, but none seems the IP. Pity.
I have a script that look each minute if the IP adress on my router has changed.
Another way is to send myself an email and parse the headers. And, this router has also support for dyndns or something similar. But, as I said, I don't need it (yet), it is just a curiosity.
It should not be too difficult to change it to log your IP changed and the time the changes occour.
True. One day I'm bored enough ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHL7LtTMYHG2NR9URAsD4AJwM/izZ/tRUO7bWcHwhn6uD5osvNwCghWaf YnriJJTHRub0yJuPj9K5OAA= =yztV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----