getting IP address of router

[Peter L. Peres]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Ralph Markham wrote:

> try traceroute
>
> suse1:~ # traceroute -m 1 garbage
> traceroute to garbage (55.55.55.55), 1 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1  192.168.1.1  0.405 ms   0.485 ms   0.411 ms
> suse1:~ #
>
> This gives me my routers dynamic ip (55.55.55.55)
>
> I don't know why, and it does not appear to de documented in the traceroute 
> man page, but then I only skimmed though it.

But if you or your isp does nat then the remote will not know you by 
that ip.

Peter
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