Aaaaaahhhhh (light bulb comes on). Thanks, Bruno! Brennan ---- Original Message ---- From: bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: openbeosnetteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [openbeosnetteam] Re: ping Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 05:36:26 -0100 CVT >On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:44:12 -0600, Brennan Cleveland < >warriorspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > >> I also had a question about ping. How is ping -I supposed to work? > >> On >> my Linux box, 'ping -I eth0 address' works, but on OBOS, 'ping -I >> rtl81390 address' does not (give 'bad interface address'). Is this > >> an >> actual bug, or am I not using the -I switch properly? > >You should use the path to the interface. "/dev/net/rtl8139/0" for >instance. > >-Bruno > > >-- >Fortune Cookie Says: > >Prof: So the American government went to IBM to come up with a >data > encryption standard and they came up with ... >Student: EBCDIC!" >