
On 22 September 2015 at 18:31, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 September 2015 at 15:21, Peter Renzland <renzland@gmail.com> wrote:
Request for help: Using (Tomato) Linux (Router) as Web Proxy Server.
I remotely manage several Tomato networks.
I would like to connect to the ISP's Usage Data web page, from the
remote network, to check the remote network's data usage.
I'd also like to run the ISP-specific (web browser) speed test from the
remote network, to check the remote network's data rates.
These seem like very ordinary, simple things to want to do. I'd like to find someone who has actually done these things, and who
can help me do them.
(I have found dozens of "how-to" web pages that don't work for me. But I have not found anyone who has said
"I do this all the time, and here is how I do it". Instead, I have found many people who have said "I have never done this, and I won't try to do it myself it, but you should try this ....")
Being able to do a web search on "my IP" and get the remote (proxy) host's IP address is really all need.
So, if there is someone who actually has done this, please help! Thank you very much.
[Mac OS X, Google-Chrome, Tomato Shibby 131 AIO]
Many years ago (so this almost falls into the category of "I haven't done this but you should try it" - sorry ... but it did work then) I had a pretty good system for finding my home IP. I did it from the home computer, not the router: you should have router access, which should make it easier. My home computer would check the IP address assigned to the router every five minutes on a cron job, and if it found the IP was different from last time, it would update the IP on a web page and post it to my public web server. That section of the website was password-protected (although not encrypted, something I would definitely do now).
I hope this is useful, sorry it's so vague.
I use inadyn-mt <https://sourceforge.net/projects/inadyn-mt/> to push IP changes over to domains on afraid.org. Unfortunately, there have been issues with such packages making the processes pretty fragile. I used to use "plain inadyn"; had to jump to a fork that seemed better maintained. (I'm not sure the difference continues to be true.) I believe that dd-wrt and open-wrt include inadyn deployments for updating "home IPs". -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"