Hi, If things go well, Debian's fping will soon have a -S option to allow setting of the source IP address of the outgoing ping. The same patch has been submitted to fping's upstream and will hopefully be included up there. Now it needs to be possible to set the source IP of an FPing probe in smokeping to take advantage of that new feature.
I have been thinking about a configuration file syntax allowing stuff like: --- *** Probes *** + FPing binary = /usr/bin/fping ++ FPingInternal ++ FPingExternal sourceip=a.b.c.d --- If a probe FPing or FPingInternal is used, fping should be called as usual, and if a probe FPingExternal is used, fping should be called with "-S a.b.c.d" as additional parameters. The same could then be done for ipv6. I do not know enough object oriented perl to do the patch myself. I never can figure out the notation necessary to put an array into an object with two index hashes. *yuck* On a more general basis, a possibility to add arbitrary command line options to a probe binary from the config file would solve _this_ issue and possibly other issues as well. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
