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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com>
Subject: Getting info from ifconfig output
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:03:27 -0500
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Browsing the list I saw a question regarding using grep and friends
to get an IP. I do this, but to allow a single firewall config file to
be used on a number of machines without editing. Here are the first few
lines, I hope they are useful to someone. I extract the IP and the
broadcast (I don't always have 8 bit subnetting).


# define internal and external interfaces
int_i=eth0
ext_i=eth1
loopback=lo

# define the IP of the external address, only IP used
AdrsLine=$(ifconfig ${ext_i} | grep "inet addr:")
ext_ip=$(expr "$AdrsLine" : ".*inet addr: *\([0-9.]*\)")
Bcast=$(expr "$AdrsLine" : ".*Bcast: *\([0-9.]*\)")

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bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979.