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Special Forums IP Networking How to get IP of computer assigned by DHCP? Post 302883346 by corrado33 on Monday 13th of January 2014 11:27:47 AM
Old 01-13-2014
How to get IP of computer assigned by DHCP?
I have a computer at work with no control over the network settings. We have to pay for a static IP so that won't happen. I'm running an SSH server so I can connect back and analyze data when I'm sitting in boring classes.

I want to know how to get the IP of this machine when I'm on the same network.

Previously what I would do is either grab it before I leave the office, or I set up a script in mail that would email me the IP address if I sent a very specific e-mail to myself.

I'm not very good with networking, and to make matters worse, I'm on an iPad with no true access to a console.

No, this is not illegal, I'm friends with the IT guy on the floor, and he says it's perfectly fine. However, I don't think running a network scan would go unnoticed.

So, what is the best way to do this? My e-mail script only works if the computer isn't asleep, and it especially doesn't work if I forget what to e-mail myself.

Any help?

I could potentially connect to my home server, VPN into the network, then run a bash script that looks for my server but... I don't think that's a great idea.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cvsconnect

CVSCONNECT(1)															     CVSCONNECT(1)

NAME

       cvsconnect - CVS connection minimizer

SYNOPSIS

       cvsconnect cvsroot [command-to-run ...]

DESCRIPTION

       CVSconnect enables you to do multiple CVS operations on single network connection.  CVSconnect sets up special environment using
       $CVSRSH/$CVSROOT for the command line CVS client.  In the environment, the command line CVS client reuses a network connection.

       CVSconnect is especially designed to use with CVSsuck.  And CVSconnect (or similar) will be integrated to a future version of CVSsuck.
       However, it is planned that CVSsuck directly connects to a cvs server without cvs command.

EXAMPLES

	cvsconnect $HOME/.cvsroot

BUGS

       o   The global option -z for compression cannot be used.  If you use SSH via ext method, you can use compression by SSH instead.

       o   CVS client must be run at a time.  Running two or more clients at a same time will make a trouble.  (will be fixed in future release.)

       o   Some static variables in a CVS server may confuse you.  It's a CVS bug.  Report it to CVS developer :-).

       o   Command line CVS client must request `Root' first.  Don't mind.  There is no implementation which violates this assumption, however I
	   know.  At least, CVS-1.10 and CVS-1.11 should work.

NOTES

       o   When CVS command is failed, CVSconnect automatically re-run the command with reconnected connection when CVS command is failed.
	   Especially the failure is caused by a long running CVS-1.10 server.	Since CVS-1.10 doesn't close some file descriptors, a long running
	   CVS server will exceed a limit of file descriptors.

       o   /bin/sh should be POSIX sh because this script uses ${parameter#pattern}, etc.  If your /bin/sh is ancient Bourne shell, use ksh or
	   bash.

SEE ALSO

       cvs(1), cvssuck(1).

AUTHOR

       This manpage is written by Piotr Roszatycki <dexter@debian.org> for Debian distribution and can be freely redistributed.

Debian								    2011-08-30							     CVSCONNECT(1)
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