World: r3wp

well, my wireless router assigns an internal IP 192.168.1.100 (for 
example), and if I do a get-modes udp:// 'interfaces I get..

addr: 127.0.0.1
netmask: 255.0.0.0
broadcast: none
dest-addr: none
flags: [multicast loopback]
name: "if65540"
addr: 192.168.1.100
netmask: 255.255.255.0
broadcast: 192.168.1.255
dest-addr: none
flags: [broadcast multicast]

Nothing in there that I can send to you, that will allow you to find 
me.. so how do i determine (via Rebol) the IP address assigned to 
the router?

Not sure that this can even be determined with Rebol.. Probably need 
to do a workaround.. send a http request to a remote script, peel 
the IP from that, send it back?

Like this.. 

getIP: read http://whatismyip.com
parse getIP [thru "displaycopy('" copy myIP to "'"]

tried IP chicken.. seems slower.

http://www.ipchicken.com/

Maybe I should put that into a view pane and enter it into the contest?

Hmm, too late to hide the source code huh? :)

http://www.compkarori.com/cgi-local/whatismyip.r

<ip> 203.79.110.37 </ip>

ip chicken is way slower

Yeah, local versions of that scattered around the world would be 
help with the speed..your's is too slow for me

I put a PHP version on my server... no need to parse.. 

myIP: read http://lonestar.tv/myip.php

That's in the eastern states somewhere (1and1)

Mine is in texas.

who do you use.. rackspace?

and what's up with that xml you have wrapping your output?

webxess.com, and I wrap in tags to make it parse more easily

My script checks for proxy ,and fetches the forwarded address.

Some of these scripts only give you the address of the proxy.

go and download Look @ Lan ... it si not further developed, but I 
use it often ...

there is no other way that to sequentially scan using ping ....

or some snmp tool, if your device suports it ...

the simplest way is to set your network card to DHCP mode, and try 
to obtain ip from your GW (router), of course if it has DHCP server 
running ...

This werks (cheap plug) Can use rebol to determine IP for LAN, and 
remote script for WAN... I've put a copy at http://squigglz.com/myip.php
and Im building a public name server using a squiggle to store and 
retrieve IP addresses.  ie: ~carl:ip~  will finish that off tomorrow

Need to build "Internet 2.0" concurrently with "Web 2.0" ;)

:-)

linux has /usr/sbin/traceroute www.rebol.com

 1  xdsl-87-78-115-1.netcologne.de (87.78.115.1)  49.521 ms   53.405 
 ms   57.054 ms

 2  cat6509-pg2-vl12.netcologne.de (195.14.247.251)  62.797 ms   70.143 
 ms   72.741 ms

 3  core-pg1-vl110.netcologne.de (195.14.215.161)  75.522 ms   79.128 
 ms   82.716 ms
would the router show up here? 


there are not only myip-services, but also dynamic ips. there you 
connect, they store your current ip and then its reachable by mywishname.dyndns.ws 
or such. more effort on dialin, but then you have a name.

dyndns would be fine, but how do I creaete a dyndns update client 
with Rebol?

My router can update dyndns automatically, but I need something that's 
mobile.

in fact, if you're geeky enough, you can load up a Linksys WRT54G 
(Under the hood the unit sports a 125MHz MIPS processor with 16MB 
of RAM.) with some serious Linux apps.

they have a website and there are some binaries. on linux i found 
a few in my distor, the second worked nearly automatic, after editing 
something. for windows i guess there is something more comfortable. 
binaries makes sense because they are in my login-script :) I guess 
windows could pop up browser too, as gui is closer coupled to scripting?

terry, yeah I tried loading the MIPS version of rebol onto my Linksys 
WAP54G access point, but it wouldn't run. :-)

but i dont know about mobile and automatically from rebol.

maybe ask Carl to recompile it :)

I think it could have great potential. the AP has a mountain of stats 
that can be read out to a webpage. Imagine piping that out through 
a rebol service to a View app...

how about a chat-server? i guess it uses low power and could be on 
24/7?

easily, as long as you don't store stuff on it

mine are always on. I use them as antenna bridges

and they are dirt cheap. I have though heard from a friend who bought 
the latest version, that his is equipped with VXWorks, not Linux

Linksys have a tendency to revise their products over time, give 
them the same name, but with cut down hardware and software. therefore 
it's always preferable to get older access points

imagine a beowulf-cluster of these :))

yeah, well I don't think they are ultra fast (and there is only one 
ethernet port on mine), but I think you can do some bizarre stuff 
with them, such as cron scheduled downloads to an ethernet harddisk. 
I've always thought that REBOL could really do a lot for hardware 
at that level.

a /base needs <1mb AFAIK.

it's kind of sad to see its standard firmware version only have the 
possibility to load stats up slowly on a webpage. I did something 
that could poll it through telnet for signal strength in realtime. 
Way more useful.

basically it's stuff that can easily be done to increase the value 
of the access point. Linksys could easily sell a fully pumped up 
version of the same access point with loads of bells and whistles 
(firewall, VPN, realtime stats, SSH access) for 3-4 times its current 
price and still be cheaper than competition. the hardware is really 
underutilized

there is a third party vendor who provides alternative firmwares 
with these features. the only limitation is the amount of RAM and 
the ROM space isn't big enough to hold all the features simultaneously

rebol could download the code from the client. could be signed maybe.

and display stats in some dashbopard-thingy. Maybe if CArl makes 
another holiday and sees this thing accidentally :)

someone ought to send him such an access point. I can't imagine that 
it would take more than a days work to compile it for that hardware