[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: [Nagios-devel] question about check_ping

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Tue Apr 22 18:50:28 CEST 2003


Actually a better posted on nagiosplug-devel - its a plugin after all.

Would this feature be useful?

-sg

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, martin mcflysr wrote:

> Hello nagios-devel,
> 
> 
> How can run check_ping from different outgoing IP address?
> 
> In generic PING (in FreeBSD) this is option
> 
> -S src_addr
>              Use the following IP address as the source address in outgoing
>              packets.  On hosts with more than one IP address, this option can
>              be used to force the source address to be something other than
>              the IP address of the interface the probe packet is sent on.  If
>              the IP address is not one of this machine's interface addresses,
>              an error is returned and nothing is sent.
> 
> 
> 
> May be, this is a feature for new version of check_ping? :)
> 
> 
> Thank you,
>              
> 

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