Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL 1.4, ping

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@re...>:

>> I have just found out that in DL 1.4, the ping command (from inetutils)
>> is missing the -I option.... the ping from iputils (used in 1.2.x).
>>
>> '-I' permits to specify the source address or interface used for the
>> ICMP packets, so this was very useful for testing tunnels. Is there some
>> other way to do this?
>
> ping from iputils is setting there in the tmp directory, but is not
> the one being installed.  It doesn't matter to me which ones we use,
> and I don't know why we switched to the inetutils version of ping.
> Heiko?
>
> FWIW, ping on Ubuntu 9.04 appears to be the one from iputils.  At
> least the "--help" screen looks like the iputils version, not the
> inetutils version of ping.

I don't remember why we would have switched to the inetutils one.  
Search the mailinglist archive, if there's nothing in there, I don't  
care if we switch to the iputils one.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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