How do you check your external IP?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: ted leslie <ted.leslie-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| > | ip will show in text box if you traceroute or ping, etc.

| I issue it on private inside ip, it shows my Rogers assigned public as
| desired.

Really?  Not on my interior machines.

    [hugh at redclaw ~]$ ping -c1 gmail.com
    PING gmail.com (74.125.226.54) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from yyz06s06-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.226.54): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=9.07 ms

    --- gmail.com ping statistics ---
    1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
    rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 9.070/9.070/9.070/0.000 ms
    [hugh at redclaw ~]$ 

The outward-facing IP address of my gateway does not show up
traceroute output either.

If I do the ping on my gateway machine, it has an older ping that does 
show the source IP and that source IP is the outward facing one.
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