From: piir@... (Todd Gardner)
Date: 2004-06-30T06:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: get same info as ipconfig?

djberg96@hotmail.com (Daniel Berger) wrote in message news:<6e613a32.0406281247.52deb55e@posting.google.com>...
> piir@earthlink.net (Todd Gardner) wrote in message news:<9b849915.0406280231.d91f103@posting.google.com>...
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > Is there a cross platform command to get the same info that ipconfig
> > [w2k] or ifconfig[POSIX] returns directly in Ruby?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Todd
> 
> I see Sam mentioned sys-host (one of my packages), but it's not very
> useful at the moment.  However, I plan to rewrite the Windows portion
> to use OLE + WMI.  You can get the info you need on Windows like this:
> 
> require "win32ole"
> 
> ole = WIN32OLE.connect("winmgmts://")
> 
> # Avoid non-working adapters by setting 'IPEnabled' to true
> query = "select * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where
> IPEnabled = True"
> 
> ole.ExecQuery(query).each{ |nic|
>    p nic.IpAddress
>    p nic.IpSubnet
>    p nic.DefaultIPGateway
> }
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan

Hell Dan,

When I run the above code on w2k I get this.

=============================
["192.168.1.115"]
["255.255.255.0"]
["192.168.1.1"]

And then a modal dialog pops up and takes focus.

[dialog]
Run time error!
Program: C:\ruby\bin\\rubyw.exe
This application requested the run time to terminate in an unusual
way.  Please contact the application support team for more
information."
============================

Might you have any idea how I can determine what my WAN IP address is?
 It is not in ipconfig.  My Linksys router does show it to me at...

http://192.168.1.1/Status.htm
LAN:   
   (MAC Address: 00-04-5A-EF-5C-9F) 
     IP Address: 192.168.1.1 
   Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 
   DHCP server: Enabled 
WAN:   
   (MAC Address: 00-04-5A-EF-5C-A0) 
     IP Address: 68.164.157.203 
   DNS: 207.69.188.186
207.69.188.185
0.0.0. 
 
I have DSl and the IP address earthlink DSL gives me changes quite
frequently.  Every few days.

Thanks,

Todd