Strange ping behaviour

Nico Erfurth masta at perlgolf.de
Tue Apr 22 16:39:44 UTC 2008


Denys Vlasenko schrieb:

>> Also the ping-manpage states:
>> -I interface address
>> 	Set  source  address  to  specified interface address. Argument 	
>> 	may be numeric IP address or name of device. When pinging
>> 	IPv6 link-local address this option is required.
> 
> bbox does the same, right?

bbox does what iputils does, but as I read the man-page it should use 
the address of the interface (Not bypass routing and just send it on the 
interface with another interfaces ip). Thats also what I as a user would 
expect from this functionality.

Nico



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