#!/bin/bash

#

# retreiveip.txt - Script containing two functions to automatically grab IP dynamically

#

# Copyright (C) 2001  Oskar Andreasson <bluefluxATkoffeinDOTnet>

#

# Originally written and provided by Jelle Kalf <jkalfATunoDOTnl>. All

# greetings, thanks and feedback should be sent to him for this script.

#

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this program or from the site that you downloaded it

# from; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple

# Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307   USA

#

RetrieveIP() {

  nic="$1"

  TEMP=""

  if ! /sbin/ifconfig | grep $nic > /dev/null; then

    echo -e "\n\n interface $nic does not exist...  Aborting!"

    exit 1;

  fi

  TEMP=`ifconfig $nic | awk '/inet addr/ { gsub(".*:", "", $2) ; print

$2 }'`

  if [ "$TEMP" = '' ]; then

    echo "Aborting: Unable to determine the IP of $nic ... DHCP problem?"

    exit 1

  fi

}

RetrieveBC() {

  nic="$1"

  BROADCAST=`ifconfig $nic | awk '/inet addr/ { gsub(".*:", "", $3) ; print $3 }'`

}