Like I said, some versions of ping might allow you to specify the source interface (or address) as yours apparently does. However, they don't all do that.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:14:47 -0700, Peter Van den Wildenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cade Cairns wrote: > > >I am sure there are versions of ping that let you specify the source > >interface, but the first thing that comes to my mind is packit > >(http://packit.sourceforge.net/). > > > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:31:42 -0700, Kevin Anderson > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>If I have 2 ips on a nic, and I want the ping to originate from the second, > >>eth0:1, how would I go about making that happen? Is it even possible. > >> > >> > I have this setup > eth0 = 10.10.11.1 > eth0:1 = 10.100.5.1 > > ping commands I use > > ping 10.10.12.2 > PING 10.10.12.2 (10.10.12.2) from 10.10.11.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 10.10.12.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=849 usec > and > ping -I 10.100.5.1 10.100.5.5 > PING 10.100.5.5 (10.100.5.5) from 10.100.5.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 10.100.5.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=605 usec > > This helps? > (And does what I think it should do?) > > Peter > -- Regards, Cade Cairns _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
