Ident.me makes life easy!

One of my network simulation exercises is to create site-to-site VPN tunnels- IPSec and Wireguard -to cloud lab networks and playing with their optimization.

I built a script that connects to all my networks and save the data in a log file for analysis. But when I ran it in different networks and compiled the data, I had no way to know where they were from. Therefore I was looking for a way to add the Gateway information to identify them.

Ident.me is a cool way I learnt! Just type that on a web browser and you get the public IP (Fig.1)!

I do my scripts in PowerShell where it was easy to integrate with Invoke-WebRequest.

 #get my Gateway Info:
    $myPublicIP = '???'
    try{
    $myPublicIP = $(Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://ident.me').content
        }
    catch{}

    $ProtectedNetwork = '192.168.123.0/24'
    $GatewayInfo = "My Gateway Public IP:{0} Encryption Domain = {1}" -f $myPublicIP, $ProtectedNetwork         

Below is an output from my connectivity script in PowerShell

Feel free to share in the comments your favourite solutions.