On 27 February 2015 at 19:01, James Knott <[email protected]> wrote: > Try it. I have, with ping, browsers and ssh. They all require the > interface to be specified.
But it's only a requirement because that's the way those programs were written. I could write a new version of ping6, or any other program, that first checked if there was only one interface and, if so, didn't require the user to specify it. I could also write a ping6 version that tried each interface until it got a response. So, like I said it's a convention, not a requirement. BTW, the %<interface> format is a standard and can also be used with ping6 instead of -I. -- Scott --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
