On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:01:18PM +0530, Amitava Sen wrote:
> Did you tell ping which eth to use when pinging other machines connected 
> to the hub? Default ping will use eth0, so it can't get to eth1. man 
> ping for help.  You should use [-I interface address] to tell ping to 
> use eth1 when calling others on the network.

What absolute nonsense. Ping packets too, being ICMP over IP, are directed
by routing tables.

The -I option is to set the source IP address in locations where source
routing is used. In typical Linux usage, it has no meaning. When you use
Linux boxes as advanced routers, then ping -I is a good debugging tool.

Binand

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