Is there a way to do a WAN ip lookup from the Freenas computer?

[madmax]

I would like to verify that my computer is using my VPN that is through my DD-WRT. I have two routers and the DD-WRT is the secondary router. I did have the FreeNas server receive DHCP from the VPN router and most likely it is getting the VPN service but I like to be certain that it has a different WAN IP address and not my local ISP IP address. Typically I can verified this through a web browser with a lookup website like google. Is there plugin' or method through the shell? Thanks for any help anyone can provide. I'll take anything.

 

[praecorloth]

You should be able to just hop over to the FreeNAS admin page, click on Networking, and right there in Global Configuration you should see the default gateway. Make sure that IP is the IP of your secondary router, and that's where all your traffic will go through.

 

[madmax]

Thanks. I have done that already but I would just like to have some kinf of verification of some sort. I usually do this on my desktop and able to use a browser and use some ip lockup service to tell whether or not I'm still using my ISP IP or my VPN IP. Its important to know this and actually see the ip address be different then my ISP because sometimes my VPN IP drops from time to time. Would it be easier to install OPENVPN on the FreeNas server instead and forget about using my VPN router?

 

[madmax]

Well I figure this one out accidentally, I was trying to do something else and I tried pinging google.com

When you ping in the shell you get the results of the ping but also where the ping is coming from so your IP address which in my case was my VPN IP. I guess at the moment this is good enough.

 

[madmax]

Totally wrong about the ping. It comes up with the address of the ping.

I did find a solution for me. I found this site that uses this command:

curl ip.serverchief.com

http://www.serverchief.com/content/what-is-my-ip-address-query-tool/

This does work and gives you the address of your ip on your VPN per se for me.