Pinging from a remote host

Ivan Avery Frey ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Mon May 29 12:12:51 UTC 2006


Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> Hi all,
>  By default, ping use the  local IP address as the source IP. This work 
> perfectly if you are fixing network problems between a local network and 
> a remote host. Sometime though, you may need to fix a network problem 
> between two remote hosts. The there a ping switch one can use to force 
> ping to use a remote address as a source IP address?

Presumably sshing into the remote host and pinging from there is out of the 
question?

Ivan.
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