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 I originally made this for my own needs, contributed it to openwrt but 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. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
