Re: [IPCop-devel] [2.0] ping, ping and arping

[Olaf W. <wei...@ip...>]

Ivan Kabaivanov wrote:

> speaking from memory, it's the -I option (specify NIC interface) that someone 
> wanted.  Was it David Studeman or Harry Goldschmitt?

Probably Harry, he made a fairly good request/description way back in 
2004: http://marc.info/?l=ipcop-devel&m=108603556932267&w=2


> [chroot-i486] root:/$ /usr/bin/ping-iputils
> Usage: ping [-LRUbdfnqrvVaA] [-c count] [-i interval] [-w deadline]
>             [-p pattern] [-s packetsize] [-t ttl] [-I interface or address]
>             [-M mtu discovery hint] [-S sndbuf]
>             [ -T timestamp option ] [ -Q tos ] [hop1 ...] destination
> 
> I suppose we can drop inetutils' ping in favor of iputils' one.

Not that it is vital dropping 1 ping, saves ~ 30 KB.
It is the number of packages we are using / monitoring that worries me.
Looking at Packages-monitoring-urls I see some 200 packages, which is 
fine if we are 20+ developers, but since we are not it's worth getting 
rid of some.


Olaf

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