[Tutor] Detecting my own IP address?

[Simon Gerber]

G'day,

I'm currently blundering through a script that will let me configure and 
then connect to PPTP VPNs from a Linux box. Just a text-based front-end 
to pptp-client, really.

Adding in new VPN configurations was simple. Connecting is a little 
harder. From the command-line I would normally type: "sudo pon $TUNNEL", 
where TUNNEL is the name of the connection.

This is followed by  "sudo route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 
255.255.255.0 dev ppp0" (as an example), once the tunnel was established.

What I would really like the script to be able to do is detect when the 
tunnel connects, grab the IP address, and then create an appropriate 
route. At present, the only thing I can think of is to redirect the 
output of 'ifconfig' into a temporary file, then read it back in and use 
Python and regular expressions to try and extract the IP info from that. 
I could *probably* make that work... but I wouldn't feel very proud 
about it.

Does anyone have any clues? I do prefer to figure things out for myself 
*cough*google*cough*, but in this case I'm not really sure where to 
start looking.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,