patch - ping select interface.
Bob Keyes
bob at eecs.harvard.edu
Fri Oct 19 15:12:58 UTC 2007
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Ralf Friedl wrote:
> Bob Keyes wrote:
>> I originally made this for my own needs, contributed it to openwrt but
>> think it should go upstream to busybox. I am new here, not sure of the
>> regular way I am supposed to make contributions, but whoever is in charge
>> of accepting patches please take a look at
>> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2522 which will explain the rational for the
>> feature and includes the patch for it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bob Keyes
> Can you explain how this is different from option -I ? From the man page of
> the linux ping:
> -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.
>
> It seems the -I is supposed to accept either an IP address or a device name.
> I suggest to keep it compatible.
in Linux (net-tools) ping this is what -I does. But not in busybox ping.
-I is used for another option in busybox ping.
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