On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:16 AM KOT MATPOCKuH <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> In a man page for ping(8) and in it's help output I found option "-e":
>      -e gateway
>              Specifies to use gateway as the next hop to the destination.  The
>              gateway must be a neighbor of the sending node.
>
> I tried to use this argument, ping ignores this parameter and sends the 
> packet via default gateway.
> For example I have a tun0 which has ipv6 default gw, and an established 
> bridge0 which has available some LL addresses:
> Neighbor                             Linklayer Address  Netif Expire    S 
> Flags
> fe80::2a0:98ff:fe1d:e270%bridge0     00:a0:98:1d:e2:70 bridge0 23h56m34s S R
>
> I tried to run:
> ping -6 -e FE80::2A0:98FF:FE1D:E270%bridge0 google.com
> But the packet was sent via tun0 interface.
>
> What is wrong with it?
>
> --
> MATPOCKuH

What version of FreeBSD are you using?  There was a major change to
ping's code in FreeBSD 13.  Please show the output of
'freebsd-version' and 'netstat -rn'.
-Alan

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