Re: Trying to ping from a subinterface.

2014-06-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > Thanks. And you are obviously correct, technically. But this command > worked as I expected on earlier versions of Fedora. We now have many > procedures with such commands embedded and were surprised to discover > they no longer work on F20. Why was it changed? I take it back. I was le

Re: Trying to ping from a subinterface.

2014-06-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
I wrote: > # ping -I eth3:sub1 172.17.30.1 > ping: SO_BINDTODEVICE: Invalid argument Rick Stevens responded: > "eth3:sub1" isn't an interface, it's an alias. The interface name is > the bit before the ":" (or "." in the case of a VLAN). > > If you were to do a "netstat -rn", you'd only see "eth3

Re: Trying to ping from a subinterface.

2014-06-02 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/02/2014 11:18 AM, CLOSE Dave issued this missive: On Fedora 20 x86_64. According to "man ping", ping should work from a subinterface specifying either the interface name or its address: -I interface interface is either an address, or an interface name. If inter‐ face is an addre

Trying to ping from a subinterface.

2014-06-02 Thread CLOSE Dave
On Fedora 20 x86_64. According to "man ping", ping should work from a subinterface specifying either the interface name or its address: > -I interface >interface is either an address, or an interface name. If inter‐ >face is an address, it sets source address to specified inter‐ >