Re: 2 NIC cards not talking

Beolach
2004-01-22T04:32:13Z

Oops. I just tried it, and it doesn't take an interface name (eth0),
but rather, the IP address for the interface. So instead of

ping -I eth0 192.168.1.1

it would be

ping -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 192.168.1.1

Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of eth0.

Beolach wrote:
> ping has a -I option that allows you to specify the source interface. I
> haven't used this option myself, but I would guess Chadha used some
> thing like this: 'ping -I eth0 192.168.1.1'.
>
>
> Conway S. Smith
>
> chuck wrote:
>
>>Dear Chadha:
>>
>>In (4.) & (5.)...
>>
>>I know how to ping from a host with an 'eth0' or 'eth1' device.
>>I do not know how to ping from 'eth0' or from 'eth1'.
>>
>>Sorry, I cannot help.
>>
>>Chuck
>>
>>"Chadha, Devesh" wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>
>>
>>>4.Pinging 192.168.1.1 from eth0 gave destnation host unreachable and pinging
>>>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from eth1 gave the same.
>>>
>>>5. I can connect to internet using eth0 since I can browse the internet. I
>>>can also ping the gateway from eth0
>>
>><snip>
>>
>
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