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From: Rob Townley <rob.townley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iputils: ping by mark
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:05:39 -0500
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:
>
> ping by mark, example to use firewall mark decimal 10
> (which hopefully maps to something meaningful with policy routing):
>
> ping -m 10 10.0.0.1
>
> cheers,
> jamal
>

Would this make it easier to ping multiple gateways so if one goes
down, it is taken almost out of the routing table until it comes back
up.