Sorry, I misunderstood your reequest. I would suggest to use http://www.whatismyip.org/. It returns pure IP so no parsing is necessary.
Happy new year to you to.

>You are always there to help. I needed to know the public IP that the IPS assigns to the router. Since this IP is dynamic I wanted to know when it changes. The local IP will not help in this situation. Take a look at the other response to my thread. This is a very cool way of getting at the public IP address assigned to the router.
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>regards and happy new year,
>Neil
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