From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Cc: Rob.Townley@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Omaha Linux User Group <olug@olug.org>,
CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
Subject: Re: Ping Is Broken
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD39F98.6050808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD39342.7090209@hp.com>
Brian Haley wrote, On 10/12/2009 10:36 PM:
> Rob Townley wrote:
...
>> ping -c 2 -B -I eth0 208.67.222.222
>> PING 208.67.222.222 (208.67.222.222) from 4.3.2.8 eth0: 56(84) bytes of data.
>> From 4.3.2.8 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>> From 4.3.2.8 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>
> In this case ping is doing an SO_BINDTODEVICE to eth0, so the kernel is going
> to force the packets out of it, even if it isn't the "correct" interface. If
> you ran tcpdump you'd probably see an ARP resolution failure, or an ICMP from
> a gateway.
>
> This confusion could be cleared-up on the man page. What did you expect to
> happen in this case?
Actually, ping could do it other way: trying to connect with eth0's
IP address(es). (Then we would need another option for using a dev
like now.)
Jarek P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 10:16 Ping Is Broken Rob Townley
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2009-10-09 16:34 ` Rob Townley
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2009-10-09 16:44 ` Rob Townley
2009-10-12 9:47 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-12 19:14 ` Rob Townley
2009-10-12 20:43 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-12 20:36 ` Brian Haley
2009-10-12 21:28 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2009-10-12 21:45 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-12 23:30 ` Brian Haley
2009-10-13 5:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-10-13 13:48 ` Brian Haley
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2009-11-22 20:10 ` [olug] " Rob Townley
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