Hi,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:27:55AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> Gert,
> 
> ping -I does what you want, however, you wouldn't know it from reading
> the manual page:
> 
>      -I ifaddr
>              Send multicast datagrams on the network interface specified by
>              the interface's hostname or IP address.

Indeed.  *surprise*.

Hmmm.   The FreeBSD man page has a "-I", which is *only* for multicast...

     -I interface
             Source multicast packets with the given interface address.  This
             flag only applies if the ping destination is a multicast address.

... so I admit I didn't try NetBSD's "-I" in the first place (after
having read the sentence about "multicast datagrams").


So how to fix it?  "Find out what the available options really do and
update the man page"?

gert

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