Pinging from a remote host

[Kihara Muriithi]

 Yeap for example you may not have access to the box someone reporting the
problem is using. I noticed a feature like this on a Cisco router which
triggered the question  on whether similar facility exist on Linux boxes.
Cisco call it extended ping.

William

On 29/05/06, Ivan Avery Frey <ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> 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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